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Review

Twentieth-Century Wartime Life Histories from East-Central Europe

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1 For more on this subject, see Mękarski, Lwów.

2 Zagajewski, “To Go to Lwów,” in Without End, 79–81.

3 See Mick, Lemberg, Lwów, L’viv.

4 See, for example, Kessler, The Wartime Diary of Edmund Kessler; Frusztajer, From Siberia to America. On Bełżec, see Kola, Bełżec. The Nazi camp for Jews in the light of archeological sources.

5 See Vardi, Memorial Candles.

6 See Miriam Bodian’s work.

7 Potok, Old Men at Midnight.

8 Appignanesi, Everyday Madness, and Rosemary Hill’s review in The Guardian (Friday 14 September, 2018); https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/everyday-madness-lisa-appignanesi-review-rosemary-hill. Leading exemplars of the bereavement genre are Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, and Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow’s Story.

9 For more details readers can refer to other books already written in Czech, such as Černoušková, Löw-Beerovy vily.

10 A full feature detailing his project was published in The Daily Telegraph, 24–25 February 2019.

11 For the associations and competitions, see Paweł Rodak “Diaries – Poland’s Autobiographical Twentieth Century.” Among Polish language memoirs on Lwów, see Edward Nahlik, Tadeusz Riedl, Jan Bil, Julian Stryjkowski’s Wielki Strach, Aleksander Wat’s Mój Wiek, and the numerous Pamiętniki held under the call number syg. II, in the Archiwum Wschodniego w Ośrodku KARTA at Ludwika Narbutta 29, 02-536 Warszawa, Poland. The ‘Eastern Archive’ housed at the Association KARTA was established in November 1987 as an independent institution engaging several dozen people to document the concealed and falsified “eastern” past (https://karta.org.pl/).

12 Kachmar, Kravchenko, and Fraser, Awesome Lviv; Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus.

13 Hodorowicz Knab, Polish Customs.

14 Between 27–29 October 2021, a virtual conference dedicated to “Cities and Memory” in eastern Europe took place under the auspices of PAN and the Muzeum Miasta Gdynia: https://ihpan.edu.pl/miasto-i-pamiec/. Interestingly, three papers were dedicated to Lwów.