The Second and Third Generation

The children of former concentration camp prisoners were shaped in different ways by the experiences of their parents. Various factors play a role in how families deal with this: the reason for imprisonment, the experience of violence and death during imprisonment, and how the mother or father deals with their own history. Children's emotions range from glorification to hatred. What they all have in common, however, is that they attach significant importance to their own lives to their mother's or father's experience of imprisonment.