Wroclavian

1. not comparableOf, from or relating to Wrocław.

plural Wroclavians

1. A native or inhabitant of Wrocław.

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   When the offensive of the 1st Ukrainian Front of the Soviet Army began in January 1945, Wrocław’s Gauleiter K. Hahnke ordered the evacuation of nearly 700,000 civilians, mainly old men, women and children, as being of no use for the defence of the town. 200,000 Wroclavians were permitted to stay, plus war prisoners, compulsory workers and about 65,000 soldiers in the garrison.

   1993, Janusz Czerwiński, translated by Olga Słuckin, “Town History”, in Wrocław: The Silesian Metropolis on the Odra (Euro Tour), Berlin: RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, →ISBN, page 30

   The poor knowledge of the pre-war history of the city was confirmed in the research conducted by Jacek Pluta, who studied collective memory as an element of the identity of the citizens of Wrocław. Pluta (2006) concludes that Wroclavians do not have extensive memory of the past and the latest events are remembered best.

   2022, Bo Larsson, “Selected Results of Surveys and Interviews […]”, in Bo Larsson, editor, The City as a Political Pawn: Urban Identities in Chișinău, C̆ernivci, Lviv and Wrocław (Histories of Ukrainian Architecture), 2nd edition, Berlin: DOM publishers, →ISBN, page 475, column 2

   By the 1960s, the city had become the site of international festivals that attracted young people from many parts of the world, including the annual Jazz on the Odra festival and the biannual international festivals of avant-garde theater. Many Wroclavians thus felt a special connection to the global youth culture.

   2022, Malgorzata Fidelis, “The Counterculture: Hippies, Artists, and Other Subversives”, in Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132