Transgenerational Trauma and Family Memory? The Legacy of Sudeten German Expulsion after World War II

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/SN.2024.3.27" target="_blank" >10.31577/SN.2024.3.27</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Transgenerational Trauma and Family Memory? The Legacy of Sudeten German Expulsion after World War II

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The forced displacement of the Sudeten Germans represents a crucial moment in the history of the Czechoslovakia after World War II, it was the largest migration wave in the history of the Czech lands. The experience of losing one’s home through forced migration gave rise to what is known as the “fate-bound community” of Sudeten Germans. In the aftermath of the war, particularly from the perspective of Western countries, this community forged a shared collective identity and culture of remembrance. While considerable attention has been devoted to the communicative and cultural memory of the so-called “generation of experience”, less focus has been placed on subsequent generations and the transgenerational transmission of traumatic experiences. In this study, we delve into the concept of “postmemory” (Hirsch, 2012) and explore how families and generations of grandchildren perceive and process what can be termed “chosen trauma” (Volkan, 2001). The study is based on biographic and semi-structured interviews conducted with 11 participants, all of whom are descendants of displaced Sudeten Germans. The findings suggest that the repercussions of ancestral trauma are transmitted to the grandchildren’s generation primarily via a succession of dominant emotional responses and affects, rather than through comprehensive understanding of the ancestral history.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Transgenerational Trauma and Family Memory? The Legacy of Sudeten German Expulsion after World War II

Popis výsledku anglicky

The forced displacement of the Sudeten Germans represents a crucial moment in the history of the Czechoslovakia after World War II, it was the largest migration wave in the history of the Czech lands. The experience of losing one’s home through forced migration gave rise to what is known as the “fate-bound community” of Sudeten Germans. In the aftermath of the war, particularly from the perspective of Western countries, this community forged a shared collective identity and culture of remembrance. While considerable attention has been devoted to the communicative and cultural memory of the so-called “generation of experience”, less focus has been placed on subsequent generations and the transgenerational transmission of traumatic experiences. In this study, we delve into the concept of “postmemory” (Hirsch, 2012) and explore how families and generations of grandchildren perceive and process what can be termed “chosen trauma” (Volkan, 2001). The study is based on biographic and semi-structured interviews conducted with 11 participants, all of whom are descendants of displaced Sudeten Germans. The findings suggest that the repercussions of ancestral trauma are transmitted to the grandchildren’s generation primarily via a succession of dominant emotional responses and affects, rather than through comprehensive understanding of the ancestral history.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Svazek periodika

72

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

344-361

Kód UT WoS článku

001344134300005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85207626681