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Reflecting on ‘second generation’ experience, the ‘second generation’ here being the children of Holocaust survivors, Eva Hoffman leads us straight into the question of what it means to inherit suffering, and indeed what it means to ‘inherit’ another’s experience at all.
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Frosh, S. (2019). Postmemory. In: Those Who Come After. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14853-9_1
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