TY  - EJOUR
AU  - Silke Findeisen
T1  - Return to Silesia
T2  - Copernico. Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
PY  - 2026/06/01
UR  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/link/6a1d3e48144ab1.24357983
DA  - 2026/09/07
PB  - Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
LA  - en
AB  - For more than sixty years, Germans have been traveling back to the Silesian towns and villages they once called home. Personal written accounts of these journeys reflect how displaced people came to terms with the loss of their homeland as well as with changing political and social realities.
KW  - Poland
KW  - Germany
KW  - Czechia
KW  - Breslau
KW  - Katowice
KW  - Langenöls
KW  - Schweidnitz
KW  - Chocianów
KW  - Giebułtów
KW  - Bolesławiec
KW  - Polish People’s Republic
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - German Democratic Republic
KW  - Langenöls
KW  - Schweidnitz
KW  - Chocianów
KW  - Giebułtów
KW  - Bolesławiec
KW  - Silesia
KW  - Upper Silesia
KW  - Lower Silesia
KW  - Katowice
KW  - Jelenia Góra Valley
KW  - Langenöls, Kr. Lauban
KW  - Schweidnitz
KW  - Kotzenau, Kr. Lüben
KW  - Gebhardsdorf, Kr. Lauban
KW  - Bolesławiec
KW  - Culture of remembrance
KW  - Memory history
KW  - Identity
KW  - Flight (human behaviour)
KW  - Expulsion
KW  - Identity formation
KW  - Migration (human)
KW  - Journey
KW  - Travelogue
KW  - Displaced person
KW  - German expellee organization
KW  - Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma
KW  - Memorial site
KW  - Economy
KW  - Contemporary witness
KW  - Family
KW  - Hometown association (German expellees)
KW  - Egodocument
KW  - Neue Ostpolitik
KW  - German–Polish Border Treaty (1990)
KW  - World War II
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Genealogy
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Area studies
KW  - Regional history
KW  - Contemporary history
KW  - Alltagsgeschichte
KW  - Social history 
KW  - Migration history
KW  - Economic history
L1  - https://www.copernico.eu/en/doi/6a1d3e48144ab1.24357983
ER  -