The work of Polish researcher Marcelina Jakimowicz explores the Polish-Ukrainian borderland and the memory of its cultural and identity diversity. The author focuses on reconstructing the world of the inhabitants of Eastern Galicia, characterized by its multi-ethnicity with a large percentage of mixed Polish-Ukrainian families during the interwar period. However, as indicated in the title of the book, it is about the life world that ceased to exist after the Second World War, changes in borders, major migrations that affected the population of this region. The author notes that the events of the mid-20th century and the establishment of a new political order in Central-Eastern Europe left their mark on the lives of everyone living at that time. The war became a key element of many biographies, a border situation that divided life into “before” and “after.”
