LEADER 02875nam 2200421 450 001 9910808265903321 005 20220706203437.0 010 $a1-63206-116-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000008331939 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6943999 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6943999 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008331939 100 $a20220706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHistory of a disappearance $ethe story of a forgotten Polish town /$fFilip Springer ; translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye 205 $aFirst Restless Books paperback edition. 210 1$aBrooklyn, New York :$cRestless Books,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 311 $a1-63206-115-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aAll the resurrections -- The bottle -- Kupferberger gold -- Daddy isn't there -- O Lord, make no tarrying -- They went away -- Photographs I -- Westward, or All the deaths of Barbara Wo?jcik -- Ueberschaer's tomb -- The second cemetery -- Long live Miko?ajczyk! -- Postscript -- The last ones -- Don't touch the graves -- There was this fear -- The Germans are coming -- Whose fault -- That evil woman -- The church -- The manor house -- The brewery -- The letter -- Photographs II -- All Miedzianka's treasures -- The town is gone -- Epilogue. 330 $aLying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher. 607 $aPoland$xHistory 676 $a943.8 700 $aSpringer$b Filip$f1982-$01710528 702 $aBye$b Sean Gasper 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808265903321 996 $aHistory of a disappearance$94101220 997 $aUNINA