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Second Generation Voices

Alan L. Berger,Naomi Berger
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Author : Alan L. Berger,Naomi Berger
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815606818

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Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming burdens and challenges it has inherited. In these intensely personal and frequently dramatic pieces, understandable differences surface. The Jewish second generation is unified by a search for memory and family. Their German counterparts experience the opposite. Yet surprising common ground is revealed. Each group emerges out of households where, for vastly different reasons, the Holocaust was not mentioned. Each struggles to break this barrier of silence. Each has witnessed the continued survival of parents and must grapple with living in households haunted by denial. And each knows it is his or her charge to shape the Holocaust for future generations. To be sure, there is disagreement among the groups about the need for-or wisdom of-dialogue. Yet Second Generation Voices boldly engenders authentic grounds for discussion. Issues such as guilt, anger, religious faith, and accountability are explored in deeply felt poems, essays, and narratives. Jew and German alike speak openly of forming and affirming their own identities, reconnecting with roots, and working through their own "psychological Holocaust."

The Ones Who Remember

Rita Benn,Julie Goldstein Ellis,Ruth Finkel Wade,Joy Wolfe Ensor
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Author : Rita Benn,Julie Goldstein Ellis,Ruth Finkel Wade,Joy Wolfe Ensor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781947951518

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The Ones Who Remember by Rita Benn,Julie Goldstein Ellis,Ruth Finkel Wade,Joy Wolfe Ensor Pdf

How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.

Children of the Shadows

Kathy Grinblat
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Author : Kathy Grinblat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children of Holocaust survivors
ISBN : UOM:39015055167699

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The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child and what it meant to grow up in a home affected by the shadows of the Holocaust.

Second Generation

Eleanor Sontag
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Author : Eleanor Sontag
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456823655

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I have been consumed with thoughts about the Holocaust ever since I was a little girl and I have decided to write about my experiences as a child of Holocaust survivors both as a catharsis and as a memorial to my parents' memories. I would like to note at the outset of this memoir that until very recently, I always felt that the story I want to tell here was not my story at all, it belonged to my parents what happened affected them profoundly, but surely, or so I thought, not me. I am American born born in 1943 and brought up in the tiny village of Homer in Upstate New York. I have been fortunate enough to have lived a relatively peaceful life which is light-years apart from the experience of my parents. But I have come to realize that my parents' stories are, indeed, my stories. Their identity is, indeed, my identity in very profound ways. They survived the Holocaust. I am a second generation survivor. As a child, I lived under the pall of the Holocaust. My parents had been thrown out of Germany. That's exactly the way my Dad sneered the words he was "thrown out of Germany by Hitler." When speaking of Hitler with our relatives, he always referred to him as that "Schweinehund," the nastiest epithet he could conjure up translation, "pig dog." The English translation does not do justice to the scorn in his voice. When he used those words, his entire body revealed his contempt. Fortunately for our family, my parents were able to escape Germany in 1939 shortly before the mass murders began. My parents rarely talked about their experiences, but it pervaded the air I breathed from the day I was born in a hospital in Cortland, New York, three miles from Homer, New York, three thousand miles from where the catastrophe of the Holocaust took place. Whenever my parents would get together with family or friends, their voices would be hushed as they would talk about things that I was not supposed to hear because I was too young. I learned about the Holocaust the way most children learn about taboo things by listening in stairwells or by pretending to be asleep as my parents had conversations in German in hushed voices. In this way, the story of the Holocaust seeped into my consciousness subliminally and effortlessly.

Children of the Holocaust

Helen Epstein
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Author : Helen Epstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525507703

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"I set out to find a group of people who, like me, were possessed by a history they had never lived." The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Helen Epstein traveled from America to Europe to Israel, searching for one vital thin in common: their parent's persecution by the Nazis. She found: • Gabriela Korda, who was raised by her parents as a German Protestant in South America; • Albert Singerman, who fought in the jungles of Vietnam to prove that he, too, could survive a grueling ordeal; • Deborah Schwartz, a Southern beauty queen who—at the Miss America pageant, played the same Chopin piece that was played over Polish radio during Hitler's invasion. Epstein interviewed hundreds of men and women coping with an extraordinary legacy. In each, she found shades of herself.

Voices from the Second World War

Candlewick Press
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Author : Candlewick Press
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763697730

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In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten. The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn. More than seventy years after peace was declared, children interviewed family and community members to learn about the war from people who were there, to record their memories before they were lost forever. Now, in a unique collection, RAF pilots, evacuees, resistance fighters, Land Girls, U.S. Navy sailors, and survivors of the Holocaust and the Hiroshima bombing all tell their stories, passing on the lessons learned to a new generation. Featuring many vintage photographs, this moving volume also offers an index of contributors and a glossary.

Let's Hear Their Voices

Iraida H. López,Eliana S. Rivero
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Author : Iraida H. López,Eliana S. Rivero
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781438477107

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Let's Hear Their Voices by Iraida H. López,Eliana S. Rivero Pdf

Let's Hear Their Voices brings together works by ten distinguished and emerging Cuban American writers of the "second generation"—writers who were born between 1960 and the mid-1980s in the United States to Cuban parents or have a mixed ethnic background. Called "ABCs" (American-Born Cubans) or "AmeriCubans," these writers experiment with different formal approaches and lace their work with Cuban Spanish to give voice to hybrid identities and cultural legacies within the contemporary multicultural United States. An introduction by Iraida H. López identifies key tropes in their poetry, prose, and drama, and provides an overview of Cuban American literature since the 1960s. With both original and previously published pieces by award-winning authors—including President Obama's Second Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco—the volume makes a welcome contribution to the fields of Latinx and American literature, as well as critical discussions across disciplines about the intersections of latinidad with race, class, gender, and sexuality.

Second-generation Holocaust Literature

Erin Heather McGlothlin
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Author : Erin Heather McGlothlin
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133526

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Expands the definition of second-generation literature to include texts written from the point of view of the children of Nazi perpetrators.

The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime

Simone Gigliotti,Monica Tempian
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Author : Simone Gigliotti,Monica Tempian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472523907

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The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime by Simone Gigliotti,Monica Tempian Pdf

During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe. The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime represents the diversity of their experiences, covering a range of non-European perspectives on the Second World War and aspects of memory. This book is unique in that it places the experiences of children and youth in a transnational context, shifting the conversation of displacement and refuge to countries that have remained under-examined in a comparative context. Featuring essays from an international range of experts, this book analyses the key themes in three sections: the migration of children to countries including England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, and Brazil; the experiences of young people who remained in Nazi Europe and became victims of war, displacement and deportation; and finally the challenges of rebuilding lives and representing traumas in the aftermath of war. In its comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish experiences and how these intersected and diverged, it revisits debates about cultural genocide through the separation of families and communities, as well as contributing new perspectives on forced labour, families and the Holocaust, and Germans as war victims.

Never Turn Left

Louis Girifalco
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Author : Louis Girifalco
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505434211

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The future is rushing to meet me and I know that I will realize only a fraction of what I am and can be. I am beginning to truly absorb the fact of mortality and I don't like it. There are so many more things I can do; that I want to do. And there is much that I would like to pass on, So I am offering this collection of essays and stories, thoughts and ideas which, taken together define a life of transition between two worlds. Only after reading what I have written, did I discover that the central core of my reality is that I am a child of the second generation. I was born between two worlds and was an integral part of two worlds. I wanted to become fully "American," to transcend the old world ideas, customs, prejudices and accents; above all, the accents, which marked us as so different. "Diversity" was not celebrated during my childhood as it is now. So we did our best to fit in, to become like the others and to deny our roots. At the same time, our culture demanded respect for our elders, for their opinions and for their values and we could not escape this. Somehow, the children of the second generation reconciled this duality and grew to be true Americans; the strangers who absorb the American ideas of personal freedom and opportunity, while retaining the best of the old ways. In that uniquely American way, we have struggled and we have triumphed.

Legacies

Alejandro Portes,Rube ́n G. Rumbaut
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Author : Alejandro Portes,Rube ́n G. Rumbaut
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520228481

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One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or worse. Whether this new generation reinvigorates the nation or deepens its social problems depends on the social and economic trajectories of this still young population. In Legacies, Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut—two of the leading figures in the field—provide a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement. Based on the largest research study of its kind, Legacies combines vivid vignettes with a wealth of survey and school data. Accessible, engaging, and indispensable for any consideration of the changing face of American society, this book presents a wide range of real-life stories of immigrant families—from Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, the Philippines, China, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam—now living in Miami and San Diego, two of the areas most heavily affected by the new immigration. The authors explore the world of second-generation youth, looking at patterns of parent-child conflict and cohesion within immigrant families, the role of peer groups and school subcultures, the factors that affect the children's academic achievement, and much more. A companion volume to Legacies, entitled Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America, was published by California in Fall 2001. Edited by the authors of Legacies, this book will bring together some of the country's leading scholars of immigration and ethnicity to provide a close look at this rising second generation. A Copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation

Commemorating War

Graham Dawson
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Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351527644

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War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.

The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration

T.G. Ashplant,Graham Dawson,Michael Roper
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Author : T.G. Ashplant,Graham Dawson,Michael Roper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134696574

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The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration by T.G. Ashplant,Graham Dawson,Michael Roper Pdf

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes which have led to this development, among them the passing of the two World Wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the centre of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood.

Telling the Little Secrets

Janet Handler Burstein
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Author : Janet Handler Burstein
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299212438

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Janet Burstein argues that American Jewish writers since the 1980s have created a significant literature by wrestling with the troubled legacy of trauma, loss, and exile. Their ranks include Cynthia Ozick, Todd Gitlin, Art Spiegelman, Pearl Abraham, Aryeh Lev Stollman, Jonathan Rosen, and Gerda Lerner. Whether confronting the massive losses of the Holocaust, the sense of “home” in exile, or the continuing power of Jewish memory, these Jewish writers search for understanding within “the little secrets” of their dark, complicated, and richly furnished past.

The Generation of Postmemory

Marianne Hirsch
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Author : Marianne Hirsch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Children of Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 9780231156523

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Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories--multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethics of empathy and identification, these artists attempt to forge a creative postmemorial aesthetic that reanimates the past without appropriating it. In her analyses of their fractured texts, Hirsch locates the roots of the familial and affiliative practices of postmemory in feminism and other movements for social change. Using feminist critical strategies to connect past and present, words and images, and memory and gender, she brings the entangled strands of disparate traumatic histories into more intimate contact. With more than fifty illustrations, her text enables a multifaceted encounter with foundational and cutting edge theories in memory, trauma, gender, and visual culture, eliciting a new understanding of history and our place in it.