ABSTRACT
The transmission of cultural heritage and knowledge about the past, both at familial and at societal levels, is a process of interpretation and re-narration according to present needs and future projections. To understand the re-interpretation and re-narration of the Armenian Genocide in different communities, this chapter analyses the results of a long-term research process between 2015 and 2019 in Armenia, Lebanon and Turkey. While emotional reactions to the stories and sense of loss vary in relation to individual and collective experiences in different countries, for the majority of the persons interviewed, the importance of the topic of transmission lies in the reciprocity between present-past and future, the stories and their narrative elements passed down to them and their selection of what to be passed over. Respectively, I discuss the gendered dimension of family memory and explain new meanings attached to the stories of family members, considering the social and political contexts in each country.
