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Dissertation
Finding the past within the present: The significance of the Holocaust experience for the third generation
2010
Overview
This study will explore the significance of the Holocaust for the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors (third generation). Semi-structured, extensive interviews were conducted with 17 members of the third generation who varied in age, gender, and the number of surviving grandparents. These interviews allowed the explorations of some of the mental representations of the Holocaust for these grandchildren, and allowed them to reveal the ways that this past trauma, which happened in the grandparents' generation, is still present in their lives today. In studying these issues, the interviews were first analyzed by using the language measures of the Multiple Code Theory, which revealed that participants related differently to different parts of the interviews, depending on their emotional processing of the material. For example, participants were more able to immerse themselves in the stories about their grandparents and their families, but were more defended in talking about intrapsychic material (dreams, fantasies etc.). The use of the language measures was valuable in pointing out significant moments in the interviews, and hence turned out to be an important tool in narrative analysis. Moreover, theme dictionaries were developed for the purposes of this study in order to reveal the central themes that surfaced in the interviews. Some of these themes were dynamic between loss and survival, and conflicting attitudes towards the family heritage. Findings demonstrated the existence of the transmission of the Holocaust trauma among the generations, and how this impacts the lifestyle of participants.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
Subject
ISBN
9781124392165, 1124392165
