This edited collection presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R, collectively highlighting the long-term effects of these policies and their significance to contemporary societies in Eastern Europe.
Deportation was a pervasive phenomenon, with socio-economic, demographic, and political implications that have structurally affected the shape and composition of contemporary European societies. Whether considering political repression, ideological clashes, social upheavals, territorial claims, ethnic cleansing, or conflicts within and between societies, deportation was a destabilizing factor across all aspects of twentieth-century East European history.
Applying cross-disciplinary perspectives, each case study makes extensive use of archival material or oral histories, presenting the stories of those “undesirables” who were cast out by political systems and the communities torn apart by their removal. These snapshots are not just memories of a time gone by, but visceral encounters with individuals, communities, ethnic and religious groups - a scholarly gaze into experiences that spanned across various realms, from the physical to the psychological and the profoundly spiritual. In tracing the impact of these policies down to the present day, the authors not only recount and reassess the dark tides of history but also contemplate the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
This volume stands as a crucial resource for researchers, educators, and policymakers.
This edited collection presents a wide-ranging survey of forced deportations by totalitarian regimes in East Central Europe throughout the 20th century. The chapters focus on deportation policies and practices among regimes in Romania, Ukraine, Albania, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, and the former U.S.S.R.
Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations
Introduction Dorottya Sziszkoszné-Halász: The Evolution of a Massacre: The
Uniqueness of Kamenets-Podolsk Miklós Horváth: We Are Dragged Off to
Siberia! Deported Hungarians under Soviet Duress, 19561957 Artan R.
Hoxha: First Circulating and Later Educating: Enver Hoxha and the
Disempowerment of the Techno-Bureaucratic Establishment in Communist Albania
Heléna Huhák: Hungarian Jewish Women in the Sömmerda Forced Labour Camp:
Narratives on the Womans Body Ilnytskyi Vasyl/Starka Volodymyr: Everyday
Life of Forced Immigrants on the Territory of Eastern Galicia under the
Conditions of the Soviet Totalitarian Regime from 1939 to 1941
Martin-Oleksandr Kisly: Deportation of Crimean Tatars: Constructing the Myth
of the Lost Homeland Vladimer Luarsabishvili: Operation Thunderstorm:
Deportation to the Kazakh SSR in 1951 (Based on Unpublished Archive Materials
of the Former KGB Archive of the Georgian SSR) Diana-Mihaela Punoiu:
Ambiguous Belongings: The 1940 Refugees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
in Oltenia Daniela Popescu/Manuela Marin: Creating the Enemy: Roma People
Between Discrimination and Deportation. The Romanian Case Victor
Shnirelman: Mosaic of a Social Memory: How the North Caucasians Recall the
Deportation László Somogyi: Dealing with The Domestic Enemy Internment
of National Minorities in Hungarian Camps During the First World War Olga
Stefan: Vapniarka: Forms of Antifascist Resistance in the Camp of Death
András Szécsényi: Deportation Routes to Bergen-Belsen from Hungary,
19441945: Personal Narratives of Hungarian Jews Lyubomira
Valcheva-Nundloll: Germans or Bulgarians? The German Population in Bulgaria
Between Exclusion and Inclusion at the End of the Second World War Vlasis
Vlasidis/Areti Makri/Aikaterini Yannoukakou: From Greek Macedonia to Asia
Minor: Deportation or Forced Migration of Muslims Based on the Lausanne Peace
Treaty Notes on Contributors List of Index Terms.
Mihaela Martin holds a doctorate in history. A widely published author, her studies focus on local and regional history, with additional interests in ethnicity and transnational perspectives.
Michael Sgatais read history and philosophy at UCL before going on to further interdisciplinary research on former Soviet state archives and cultural memory in the post-Soviet space. An award-winning filmmaker, he is also creator of the autoethnographic project "Joìzefas Letters - Extraction From Oblivion", which explores how the traumatic legacy of mass deportations is carried and felt by successive generations. Joìzefas Letters has been exhibited at museums in Moscow, Lviv, Vilnius, Budapest and Frankfurt.
Dallas Michelbacher is an Applied Researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He earned a B.A. in history from Auburn University in 2011 and a Ph.D. from Central Michigan University in 2016. He is the author of Jewish Forced Labor in Romania, 1940-1944 (2020) and a contributor to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945. His primary area of research interest is the experience of forced laborers and prisoners of war, with a particular emphasis on Romania.
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