In our category ‘Research Insights’, we provide insights into different areas of research on the topic of ‘descendants of victims of national socialism’ and show which approaches are being pursued in the disciplines and in different national and cultural contexts. Further information can be found here.
Although social and political activism of Roma* and Sinti*[1] living in Germany is no longer a marginal phenomenon, Roma* activism as a whole receives little attention from the media or society. Since the civil rights movement in Germany (Bürgerrechtsbewegung) of the 1970s, Roma* and Sinti* activists have been raising their voices (cf. Gress, 2015; Herold … Read more
Special thanks to Beate Klarsfeld for her contribution to this article. The period after the end of the Second World War in the Federal Republic of Germany was characterised by a widespread rejection of responsibility, persistent anti-Semitism and the inactivity of state authorities who did not really make an effort to prosecute former Nazi perpetrators[1]. … Read more
For my PhD dissertation, I have been conducting oral history interviews with grandchildren of Jewish Holocaust survivors in the United States and Germany since July 2023 with the goal of understanding how survivors and their grandchildren tell and retell stories about the Holocaust. Especially in the United States, grandchildren of survivors are typically studied based … Read more
My text is about the issue of the consequences of National Socialist court verdicts and the prison sentences for survivors and their families, an almost forgotten group of victims of Nazi persecution, by the example of Wolfenbüttel Prison. Wolfenbüttel Prison was the main penal facility in the former State of Braunschweig (Brunswick), in northern Germany, … Read more
Among the German Sinti and Roma there is hardly a family that was not affected by the persecution by the National Socialists. At least three quarters fell victim to the genocide, so that only a few thousand survived, the majority of whom returned to their old homes.[1] Marlo Thormann, born in 1960, and Kelly Laubinger, … Read more
As an oral history and memory researcher based in Poland, for years I have been recording and analysing the testimonies of World War II survivors. The memory and experience of the second generation, those growing up in the shadow of the traumatic past, became the subject of my PhD thesis in sociology. The Polish context … Read more
The Reflections Blog offers all those whose family history was affected by the crimes of the Nazis a platform to share their stories and thus contribute to a sustainable future of remembrance. The personal stories of the descendants form the core of this blog – in them the effects of the Nazi persecution on the … Read more
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