In my final quiz section, we discussed the book "Maus" and post-memory. I did read the book; it had all of the inevitable misery of the time but presented through a compelling narrator and his father the holocaust survivor (or Jewish displaced person as they were called pre Eichman tiral).
Showing how the traumatic experiences can follow descendants through the generation. The outcome for WW II participants interest me. The Holocaust survivors, the people in Germany and Poland who made all of it happen. One of the TAs gave a fascinating if distressing talk about how the Nazi persecution was spun post war in East Germany and West Germany. Germany was re-unified in her childhood; she was born in East Germany. Maybe more on that later.
Maus is a great example of post-memory. The participants had not actually experienced the events but suffer the events through the damage and the tales of those close to him who have experienced those events.
During class, I thought of my granddaughter Melina and the Cambodian genocide and how she experiences that event through her (other) grandfather. Post-Memory.
I could not find any image of the Cambodian genocide that wasn't completely terrifying. Just couldn't do it. So I'll go a little ironic.
Enjoy the Anne Frank pencils.
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