The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors by Janet Jacobs

Author:Janet Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Holocaust, Religion, History, Psychology of Religion, REL040000 Religion / Judaism / General
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2016-01-15T01:02:01.652000+00:00

Extended Family Members: The Social Relations of Kinship and Family in Postgenocide Culture

While relationships within the multigenerational family formed the core of relational ties for descendants, participants also cited the significance of bonds to extended family members who provided emotional support and continuity with the past. Within a culture of absence and extensive loss, the presence of other surviving relatives—aunts, uncles, or cousins—took on special meaning for descendants who looked to these relatives for connection, knowledge, and nurturance beyond the isolating world of the post-Holocaust nuclear family. As discussed in the chapter on narrative and identity (chapter 1), extended family members were often a source of information about the past. Here a daughter relates the significant role that her aunt (her father’s surviving sister) played in her life:

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