De gevoelige erfenis van de jaren '40-'45

Samenvatting

The Sensitive Legacy of 1940-1945. A review article on books by: Jeanette Eland, Peter G. van der Velden, Rolf J. Kleber, and Carl H. D. Steinmetz, Tweede generatie Joodse Nederlanders ([The Second Generation of Dutch Jews] Instit. Psychotrauma: Van Loghum Slaterus, 1990); and Marius Flothuis, Etty Mulder, Huub Oosterhuis, Hanne Depmann, and Roel van Heusden (Eds), Kinderen van de oorlog. Getuigenissen uit de emotionele nalatenschap van '40-'45 ([Children of the War: Testimonies from the Emotional Legacy of 1940-1945] Nijmegen: SUN, 1990). Special attention is given to the concept of transgenerational traumatization affecting the second generation, whose parents' lives were deeply changed by WWII. A less than fully enthusiastic appraisal is given for the two books. M. Meeks