ABSTRACT
In the introduction, I give a historical overview of studies on children during and after the Holocaust. Situating my work on children’s memory of the Shoah and on the immediate after-Shoah period in the broader historical and sociological production on child survivors, I discuss the importance of memory for understanding children’s subjectivity and the pertinence of testimony in retrieving the distinct ways in which the Holocaust was experienced by children. Different forms of memory are analysed, and the concept of generation is proposed as an analytical tool to investigate the formation of memory. The intersection of memory and generation produces not only different patterns of remembering the Holocaust but also traumatic transmissions of Holocaust-related memories. The importance of geographical backgrounds and the methodological perspective of the comparison between three cities is outlined.
