Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
Contents
pt. 1. Remembering childhood in Nazi Germany. -- War children and child survivors -- Memories and mourning: Christa Wolf's Patterns of childhood -- Trauma and testimony: Ruth Klüger's weiter leben -- pt. 2. Postmemory and the reconstruction of the past. -- The children of survivors and bystanders -- Barbara Honigmann's belated appropriation of her Jewish heritage: from Roman von einem Kinde (Novel by a child) to Ein Kapitel ans meinem Leben (A chapter of my life) -- Wibke Bruhns's father-portrait: My father's country: the story of a German family -- pt. 3. In search of grandparents. -- The grandchildren of Nazi victims, perpetrators, collaborators, and bystanders -- Images and imagination: Monika Maron's Pavel's letters -- Tanja Dücker's "sensual historiography:" Himmelskörper (Celestial bodies) -- Epilogue.
