Adi Kantor

Faculty and Department: Education, The Department of Counseling and Human Development

Research Topic: ‘The Elephant in the Room’: The place of the Holocaust and the crimes of the ‘Third Reich’ in the intergenerational German family discourse among the non-Jewish ‘grandchildren generation’

Supervisor: Prof. Hadas Wiseman

https://cris.haifa.ac.il/en/organisations/counseling-and-human-development

Research Description: This qualitative study strives to examine the place of the Holocaust and the crimes of the ‘Third Reich’ in the lives of members of the non-Jewish German ‘grandchildren generation’ living in Germany today. It aims to explore if and how the narratives constructed in the family discourse by non-Jewish Germans who witnessed the Nazi era (1933-1945) and their children (‘Die Enkelgeneration’) have been transmitted through the generations to the grandchildren. It will explore the presence as well as the absence of narratives of the crimes in the discourses of both former East and West-German families, possible silence, distortion and denial surrounding them, and their influence on processes of construction of identity, interpersonal relations among the ‘grandchildren generation’ in the past and today.

Relevant keywords: Intergenerational transmission; Germany; Holocaust memory; narrative analysis; the ‘grandchildren generation’

Hobbies: Music, podcasts, books, dance