The Second and Third Generation: The Legacy of Forced Migration from Nazi Europe

The Second and Third Generation have become increasingly active in remembering and researching their families’ pasts, especially now that most refugees from National Socialism have passed away. How was lived experience mediated to them, and how have their own lives and identities been impacted by persecution and flight?
This volume offers a valuable insight into the personal experience of the Second Generation, as well as a perceptive analysis of film, art, and literature created by or about the subsequent generations. Recurring themes of silences, transferred trauma, postmemory, and “roots journeys" are explored, revealing the distance, connection, and collaboration between the generations.

Contributors are: David Clark, Miriam E. David, Rachel Dickson, Yannick Gnipep-oo Pembouong, Anita H. Grosz, Andrea Hammel, Brean Hammond, Stephanie Homer, Merilyn Moos, Angharad Mountford, Teresa von Sommaruga Howard, Jennifer Taylor, and Sue Vice.

Andrea Hammel (DPhil, Sussex) is Professor of German and the Director of the Centre for the Movement of People at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Finding Refuge (Honno, 2022) and The Kindertransport: What Really Happened (Polity, 2024).

Stephanie Homer (PhD, ILCS, University of London) is a member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and the author of The Kindertransport in Literature (2022). Stephanie’s research interests include adverse childhood experiences and resilience, particularly in the Kindertransport context.