Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust

Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Nanette C. Auerhahn, Dori Laub

International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma

1998

Book chapter

English

9781475755671

Restricted Access

This chapter summarizes our current understanding of the many ways massive psychic trauma is known, for central to the response to trauma are the issues of knowing and forgetting. The chapter focuses on the attempt to know, the defenses against knowledge, the different levels of knowing that are possible, the inevitable limits of knowing, and implications for healing. It progresses from an initial focus on survivors of the Holocaust to a later focus on the next generation. The authors briefly address the question of modes of transmission of memory from one generation to the next. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

Kristen Walker