"Odsun" / "vyhnání" v rodinné paměti Němců z českých zemí a jejich potomků

• Authors: Jana Nosková

Title variants

EN

"Deportation" / "expulsion" in family memory of Germans from the Czech Lands and their descendants

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with the content and transmission of “images” connected with forced displacement and the relating processes in two three-generation families. The families were chosen based on the oldest generation´s personal experience with the forced displacement after World War II (a family of “deported” Germans living in Germany today and a family of German origin remaining in Czechoslovakia after 1945). The analysis focusses on family memory, whereby the authors ask not only about the content of memories of persons who are part of the “generation of experience”, but also about the transmission of these contents down to the generation of children and grandchildren, as well as about in which way the follow-up generations came to terms with the experience of the oldest generation. The authors point out the importance of family memory to create the identity of persons participating in that memory, and they demonstrate one of possible types of family remembering, whereby the youngest and the oldest generation are its major participants (transgenerational remembering).

Keywords

EN

forced displacement; Germans and German minority in the Czech Republic; family memory; generation; oral history

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 35_(77)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-28
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jana Nosková

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic