Abstract
Review: Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych. Bombs, Borders, and Two Right Shoes. World War II Through the Eyes of a Refugee Child. Lviv: Litopys publ., 2018. 258 p. It is proved that the book of memoirs by Larysa Zaleska Onyshkevych is a valuable source on the history of Displaced Persons and refugees from Ukraine in post war West Germany. We can learn from its pages how refugee children lived, what they felt, what they dreamed about, what they were afraid of during the DP era, what factors influenced the formation of their worldview and civic position.
Highlights
Podobied Olena, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Source Studies and Special Historical Sciences, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7819-1439 Researcher ID: AAA-1227-2020
It is proved that the book of memoirs by Larysa Zaleska Onyshkevych is a valuable source on the history of Displaced Persons and refugees from Ukraine in post war West Germany
That was a period in the world history after World War II when many refugees and displaced persons from Ukraine and other European countries found themselves in West Germany
Summary
It is proved that the book of memoirs by Larysa Zaleska Onyshkevych is a valuable source on the history of Displaced Persons and refugees from Ukraine in post war West Germany. The peculiarity of Larissa Zaleska Onyshkevych's book of memoirs is that it presents the events from three perspectives, one of a teenager, a teacher, and a scientist.
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