LEMKOS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN WESTERN AREAS OF POLAND

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LEMKOS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN WESTERN AREAS OF POLAND

Journal Title: FOLIA GEOGRAPHICA - Year 2010, Vol 50, Issue 1

Abstract

After finishing 2nd Word War in Lower Silesia territory happened the total exchange of the population. On Germans place, both Catholics and Protestants (Jews were exterminated by Nazis earlier), the Polish population, mostly catholic, flowed in, and also Jews group remaining from the Holocaust. After two years arrived numerous group Lemkos (Rusins). Traditionally Lemkos are the greek-catholic confession, however the part of them before the 2nd world war passed on Orthodox Church. Settlement of this ethnic group on the west of the Poland, where the confessor of churches orthodox and greek-catholic few so far, altered considerably religious relations in this region. Lemkos is the population living the south-east Poland and east Slovakia (in Slovakia called Rusins). After 2 nd world war they together with Ukrainians were the victims of very brutal displacements (Action code name “Vistula”). This had on the aim cutting off the subsidiaries for underground army fighting about the independence of Ukraine. From among 50 thousands Lemkos the majority was estate in years 1947–1948 in west part of Poland, mostly between Legnica and Zielona Góra. This population was in majority poor and the faintly educated. After displacement many Lemkos changes confessions to orthodox church. Now in Lower Silesia live about 30 thousands Lemkos, fifty-fifty orthodox and greek-catholics. After political changes in 1989 part of Lemkos returned to the motherland, in Beskidy Mts. The largest centres of the Lemkos culture in Lower Silesia are Legnica and Przemków.

Authors and Affiliations

Marek BATTEK, Joanna SZCZEPANKIEWICZ-BATTEK

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