Second Generation Committee Member, David Clark, and Teresa von Sommaruga Howard are the editors of this new book, which has a theme of journeys undertaken by Second Generation Members, including several Network Members, in search of ‘home’ or where their parents and grandparents had lived. It contains 20 accounts of journeys to places connected with family history, including Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia and Romania. A third of the chapters involve journeys with a survivor or refugee parent, another third without a parent and the final third in connection with a commemorative event. Each chapter reflects on how making such a journey changed perceptions of parents and family history, and impacted on identity and life choices. The authors also reflect on the mourning and grieving process facilitated by these journeys. The book also dwells on the search for belonging and identity, rendered all the more urgent and immediate by the reality of Brexit. This is a Zoom event beginning at 6.30pm GMT. Please register by going to:
https://thejourneyhome-booklaunch-24february2022.eventbrite.co.uk
Second Generation Network
For the children and families of survivors of and refugees from Nazi persecution