Understanding Genocide: Inter-generational Abstraction and Dilution Through Three Generations Grappling with The Holocaust

By Eden Mia Hoffman

How is the Holocaust understood by people across generations? Whereas during, and in the aftermath of WWII, the experience carried immediacy and traumatic meaning for the first generation of Holocaust survivors, received understandings of the second generation may be distinguished from the first. The second generation's perception, recounted from memories by parents and relatives, sought to protect the legitimacy of an earlier generation's lived reality, while also lending further layers of understanding. Now, with the third-generation post-Holocaust, memory is further diluted, posing potential danger of treating the Holocaust as some distant horror having lesser real meaning. This empirical project seeks to explore meaning and understanding of the Holocaust -- the terms that contour the way it is defined in the minds of inter-generational subjects, how use and connotations have changed over the past eighty-plus years, and specifically, how the Holocaust is presented to the world today. The study will analyze use of language, survivor testimonies, interviews, psychology, current events and historical facts to discern whether understandings of the Holocaust have evolved or remained the same.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983173789
• ISBN13: 9781983173783
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"