Historia Unisinos
Volume 20, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 311-325

Life stories and family memories: Interviews with grandsons of World War II refugees in Brazil [Histórias de vida e memórias familiares: Entrevistas com netos de refugiados da II Guerra Mundial no Brasil] (Review) (Open Access)

Stein M.N. , Frotscher M.
  • a Department of História, Universidade Estadual Do Oeste Do Paraná, Rua Pernambuco, 1777, Marechal Cândido Rondon, PR, 85960-000, Brazil
  • b Department of História, Universidade Estadual Do Oeste Do Paraná, Rua Pernambuco, 1777, Marechal Cândido Rondon, PR, 85960-000, Brazil

Abstract

This article is based on oral interviews made with descendants of World War II refugees who live in Guarapuava, Paraná State. They are descendants of members of a group of about 2,500 people who identify themselves as Danube Swabians, who immigrated at the beginning of the 1950s to Brazil as war refugees and settled in Guarapuava, where they founded the colony of Entre Rios. The analysis focuses on the narratives of three grandsons, born in the 1970s, in order to discuss how they construct their life and family stories in relation with narratives that construct a historical sense to the Danube Swabians in Europe and in Entre Rios. We also discuss how they connect their life stories with the experiences of their grandparents.

Author Keywords

Generation Danube swabians Colony of entre rios Life story oral history

Index Keywords

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016061814&doi=10.4013%2fhtu.2016.203.07&partnerID=40&md5=a81b65140679ba82660633a62f3eb170
DOI: 10.4013/htu.2016.203.07
ISSN: 15193861
Original Language: Portuguese