Interrupting Intergenerational Trauma: Children of Holocaust Survivors and the Third Reich

Matz, David C.; Vogel, Eric B.; Mattar, Sandra; Montenegro, Haydee

doi:10.1163/15691624-12341295

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“…However, the 1960s witnessed increased scholarly attention being given to the phenomenon, with much of this focused on Holocaust survivors and their children (Barocas & Barocas, 1973;Sigal, Silver, Rakoff, & Ellin, 1973). More recent Holocaust studies include those of Berger (2010), Iliceto et al (2011), Braga, Mello, and Fiks (2012), and Matz, Vogel, Mattar, and Montenegro (2015).…”

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Exploring the Salience of Intergenerational Trauma among Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-Era Gross Human Rights Violations

Adonis

2016

Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

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Apartheid, as a systemised and institutionalised process of race-based discrimination, exploitation and oppression, left in its wake a deeply traumatised society. Many feel that this collective trauma has not been sufficiently addressed and that this has rendered the peace achieved after Apartheid's demise increasingly fragile. In addition to this, we are reminded that traumatic memories affect not only those who have personally experienced conflict and violence, but also future generations through what is known as intergenerational transmission of trauma. This paper explores the salience of intergenerational trauma in South Africa. At a conceptual level, it is framed by the life course perspective and historical trauma theory. Methodologically, a hermeneutic phenomenological approach was utilised. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 children and grandchildren (females = 10, males = 10) of victims of Apartheid-era gross human rights violations. The interview data was subjected to an interpretative analytical process that yielded a number of themes which provide support for the salience of intergenerational trauma amongst descendants of victims of Apartheid-era gross human rights violations. These themes-secondary traumatisation, socioeconomic and material impact, and sense of powerlessness and helplessness-are discussed along with their possible implications, and foci for further research pointed to.

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Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

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Exploring the Salience of Intergenerational Trauma among Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-Era Gross Human Rights Violations

Adonis

2016

Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology

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“…This identification reflects an engagement with the Holocaust that is not mediated or endorsed by the broader Australian culture, as it is in Israeli public and political life (Lazar et al, ). Rather, it is an identity that appears to be assumed by the participants on an individual, familial and group level, as reflected by their collective definition as survivors’ descendants according to the principles of social identity theory (Matz, Vogel, Mattar, & Montenegro, ; Tajfel & Turner, ).…”

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Echoes of transgenerational trauma in the lived experiences of Jewish Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors

Cohn

Morrison

2018

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Objective: Previous experimental research has yielded inconclusive findings regarding the effects of Holocaust trauma to survivors' descendants, while qualitative studies have suggested diverse long-term impacts of this traumatic past. While the extant literature has focused mainly on Israeli and North American children of survivors, this study drew on theories of transgenerational trauma transmission to explore the lived experiences of six Jewish Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Method: Data from semi-structured interviews were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis to investigate how the impacts of historical trauma are experienced across generations in an Australian sample. Results: The impact of their grandparents' Holocaust experiences was found to echo across the participants' affective experiences, their sense of connection to family histories, their understanding of being different to others, and their political and ethical values. An analysis of these findings suggested that the participants define themselves in a collective manner as part of a group of survivors' descendants, with their post-Holocaust positioning existing in a state of tension alongside their Australian identity. Conclusions: This study extends the literature on transgenerational trauma by shedding light on how the identities of Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors continue to be profoundly informed by their identification with familial narratives of trauma, despite their generational distance from the Holocaust.

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“…In addition to indigenous peoples, Vietnamese families, who resettled in the Mississippi Delta through the 1970s through wartime refugee programs; Cajuns, whose ancestors were displaced from Canada; and African American communities who trace their histories to those who escaped the atrocities of chattel slavery also live in potential resettlement zones of coastal Louisiana (Dalbom et al 2014;Laska et al 2015). Legacies of forced displacements have long-term social, economic, and health consequences, as researchers have demonstrated by examining the longitudinal and intergenerational effects of Indian relocation (Walls and Whitebeck 2012), Japanese internment (Nagata et al 2015), the holocaust (Matz et al 2015), and urban renewal (Fullilove 2005). The histories of colonialism, forced migration, slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and other forms of racialized dispossession continue to shape where people live in relation to coastal risks, how sensitive communities are to hazards, and the extent to which oppressed peoples have the resources to adapt.…”

Section: Reshaping Louisiana's Coastal Frontier: From Doctrine Of Dismentioning

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Community Resettlement in Louisiana: Learning from Histories of Horror and Hope

Jessee

2019

Extreme Weather and Society

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It was a warm evening in early May of 2016. I made my way up two flights of stairs to Victor's wooden wraparound porch. His family's house is a comfortable prefab that looms 12 feet above the banks of Bayou Pointe-au-Chien on the border of Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes in Southeast Louisiana. It was built in 2008 after Hurricane Gustav blew the roof off their previous one-which itself had sustained extensive flood damage and needed to be raised after Hurricane Lili in 2002. I met Victor a little over a year earlier when he participated in a series of film screenings and panel discussions I co-organized in the Northeast United States. The events were coordinated to raise awareness about the recurrent disasters affecting his tribe, the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians of Louisiana (IDJC), and their plans for the future. Victor and the rest of the IDJC Tribe trace their heritage to Choctaw, Biloxi, and Chitimacha ancestors who, by the early 1840s, had escaped Indian Removal-era violence and resettled on a ridge of land 90 miles southwest of New Orleans called the Isle de Jean Charles, referred to locally as "the Island." "This is not the first time we have had to resettle. Our ancestors were displaced by treaties and Indian Removal. My papa's generation was displaced from the Island. We're already a displaced Tribe. That's why we've got to get it right." Tribal member, Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe "The question of migration and climate change is not a contingent problem to be solved (or that can be solved) by some technocratic protocol-but rather a metaphor carving out space to pose, contest and struggle for the highly political questions about the climate, mobility, economy, and the society we want." Giovanni Bettini (2017, p. 90

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Interrupting Intergenerational Trauma: Children of Holocaust Survivors and the Third Reich

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

Exploring the Salience of Intergenerational Trauma among Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-Era Gross Human Rights Violations

Exploring the Salience of Intergenerational Trauma among Children and Grandchildren of Victims of Apartheid-Era Gross Human Rights Violations

Echoes of transgenerational trauma in the lived experiences of Jewish Australian grandchildren of Holocaust survivors

Community Resettlement in Louisiana: Learning from Histories of Horror and Hope

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