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Silent memories, traumatic lives : Ukrainian migrant refugees in Western Australia / Lesa Melnyczuk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melnyczuk, Lesa.
- Series:
- Welcome walls, stories of migration
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ukrainians--Australia--Western Australia--History.
- Ukrainians.
- Ukrainians--Migrations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Europe.
- Ukraine--History--Famine, 1932-1933.
- Ukraine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Welshpool, W.A. : Western Australian Museum, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Silent Memories - Traumatic Lives is a quest for understanding, an attempt to make sense of the very emotional history of the Ukrainian post-war migrants to Western Australia. Ukrainian migrants arrived in Australia by ship between 1947 and 1951, from the Displaced Persons camps of Europe, survivors of the worst of the Soviet regime's atrocities, including genocidal famine, and only recently released from forced unpaid labour under the German Nazi regime. The testimonies of Ukrainian famine survivors included in this book reflect the findings of similar studies carried out in Ukrainian communi
- Contents:
- Preface; Introduction; 1. The Holodomor Years; 2. Survival; The birds stopped singing, the dogs stopped barking; 3. Life after the Holodomor; DP Camp 566 - Cornberg; 4. Long term effects of the Holodomor; 5. Manmade Famine as Genocide; Holodomor Panakhyda; 6. Conclusion; Endnotes; Bibliography; Acknowlegements; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-925040-02-X
- OCLC:
- 852757139
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