“Everyone has their own story...”: School and Childhood in the Memories of German Special Settlers in Kazakhstan (1950s—1960s) based on Oral History
«У каждого своя история…»: шкОЛа и детствО в паМяти неМцев - спецпОсеЛенцев казахстана (1950—1960-егОды) пО МатеРиаЛаМ устнОй истОРии
Litzenberger O. Mussabekova R.M.
2024Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Ltd.
Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie/ New Literary Observer
2024#190Issue 684 - 103 pp.
Based on oral interviews and materials from Kazakh state archives, the authors analyze the specifics of schooling and socialisation of children of deported Russian Germans born in Kazakhstan during the period of special settlement, 1941—1955. The article examines the impact of temporal disorientation, Soviet school ideology and social upheaval on German children. As the materials of the interviews show, the perceptions of time and life stories of German children born in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, who no longer experienced the hardships of deportation, sometimes contradict the national narrative and do not always fit into the concept of historical trauma.
childhood , children , family , interview , oral history , Russian German , school
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Bavarian Centre for the Culture of Germans from Russia, Nuremberg, Germany
Department of Russian Philology, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Bavarian Centre for the Culture of Germans from Russia
Department of Russian Philology
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