Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust

Auerhahn, N.C., and Dori Laub. “Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust” in The International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (1998): 21-41. Available Online at springer.com.

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This article presents the collective findings of Auerhahn and Laub over the course of their extensive work collecting testimony from the children of Holocaust survivors. They work to correct a strain of thought in Holocaust literature which holds that to identify the existence of a collective, intergenerational trauma relating to the Holocaust is to implicitly confirm a kind of psychological victory for National Socialism over the Jewish people.

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