التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Otrā pasaules kara bēgļu pieredze Nacionālā Mutvārdu vēstures krājuma avotos: intervijas ar latviešiem Anglijā. (Latvian) |
| العنوان البديل: |
The Experience of Second World War Refugees in Sources of the National Oral History Archive: Interviews with Latvians in Great Britain. (English) |
| المؤلفون: |
Krūmiņa, Maija |
| المصدر: |
Vēsture: Avoti un Cilvēki; 2013, Vol. 16, p190-197, 8p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
WORLD War II, ORAL tradition, ORAL biography, ORAL history, SOCIAL status |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
LATVIA, UNITED Kingdom |
| مستخلص: |
The purpose of this paper is to show how oral history sources can be used in the research of the escape process in Latvia during 1944-1945. This example is based on 22 life-story interviews from the National Oral History archive's collection of "Latvians in Great Britain". After assessing the general characteristics of selected narrators, it was concluded that they represented people from a rather wide range of ages, regions and social classes, and that they met the overall characteristic of those Latvians who fled to the West. Consequently, the selected life-story interviews could be used as a representative material for such research. Further in the course of the paper, the motivation of the refugees, their intents and also the means of transportation were researched. In the end, it was concluded that although each refugee case is unique, common issues can be discerned and definite aspects of the escape process can be compared. In addition, a detailed description of each individual escape case, the nuances of refugee's emotions and their perception of the events can be found in the life-story interviews. Consequently, this enables an indepth understanding of generalizations, which so far have been used to depict the escape process. These types of sources also allow a better understanding from the contem-porary standpoint, of the changing the focus of individuals, from German policy and administration level to the experience and survival strategies of the ordinary people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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