scholarly journals Inherited Traumatic Threads: Postmemory and the Dis/function of Hand-Me-Downs in Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 86-98
Author(s):  
Lucas F.W. Wilson
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Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors demonstrates how hand-me-downs function as physical links that Eisenstein uses when attempting to bridge the gaps between herself, her late father, and his Holocaust past in order to address her postmemory; however, as much as these hand-me-downs allow her to address her postmemories, they reinscribe inherited traumas that stem from her father’s Holocaust past. Eisenstein’s work serves as a generative example of how the second generation’s relationships to such clothing often reflect how they inherit and are “dressed in” their postmemories.L’ouvrage de Bernice Eisenstein, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, montre comment les vêtements usés fonctionnent comme des liens physiques qu’Eisenstein utilise pour tenter de combler le fossé entre elle-même, son défunt père et le passé de l’Holocauste de ce dernier, afin d’aborder sa post-mémoire ; cependant, autant ces vêtements lui permettent d’aborder sa post-mémoire, autant ils réinscrivent les traumatismes hérités du passé de l’Holocauste de son père. Le travail d’Eisenstein sert d’exemple génératif de la façon dont les relations de la deuxième génération avec ces vêtements reflètent souvent la façon dont ils héritent et sont « habillés » de leurs post-mémoires.

ASHA Leader ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Carol Polovoy

Psychotherapy ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit B. Whiteman
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2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Hopkins ◽  
Nicholas K. Lim ◽  
Carmen Roca
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2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Sagi-Schwartz ◽  
Rachel Yehuda ◽  
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg ◽  
Efrat Barel ◽  
Marinus Van Ijzendoorn
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Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah

The Nazis and their cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate unclear and hostile legal paths to recover their stolen property from governments and neighbors who often had been complicit in their persecution and theft. While the return of Nazi-looted art and recent legal settlements involving dormant Swiss bank accounts, unpaid insurance policies and use of slave labor by German companies have been well-publicized, efforts by Holocaust survivors and heirs over the last 70 years to recover stolen land and buildings were forgotten. In 2009, 47 countries convened in Prague to deal with the lingering problem of restitution of prewar private, communal, and heirless property stolen during the Holocaust. The outcome was the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues, aiming to “rectify the consequences” of the wrongful Nazi-era immovable property seizures. This book sets forth the legal history of Holocaust immovable property restitution in each of the Terezin Declaration signatory states. It also analyzes how each of the 47 countries has fulfilled the standards of the Guidelines and Best Practices of the Terezin Declaration. These standards were issued in 2010 in conjunction with the establishment of the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), a state-sponsored NGO created to monitor compliance. The book is based on the Holocaust (Shoah) Immovable Property Restitution Study commissioned by ESLI, written by the authors and issued in Brussels in 2017 before the European Parliament.


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