Curator Sabine Apostolo will give a virtual tour through the exhibition “The Third Generation. The Holocaust in Family Memory” which was recently shown at the Jewish Museum Vienna and at the Jewish Museum Munich.
Eighty years after the Holocaust, the last eyewitnesses are dying. Their stories, but also their trauma, have been passed on to their children and grandchildren. While the Second Generation grew up as direct observers of their parents’ psychological and physical damage, the Third Generation can look with greater distance at the family histories, in which memories and silence, family myths and secrets, and overwhelming or missing family legacies are ever-present. The exhibition investigates various ways of dealing with the inherited trauma and the difficult confrontation with the burden of family history. The objects show biographical and artistic coping strategies by the generations after the Shoah and highlight the common features shared by a heterogeneous group scattered throughout the world.