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Abstract: The aim of the article is to gain a more comprehensive insight into the Czech collective memory of the Second World War. The article suggests that vivid collective representations of the Second World War are formed by family memory as well as by generational memory. On the example of four generations, the article shows the transformation of a national narrative of persecution and resistance of the oldest generation into an abstracted and generalized narrative of the youngest generation. Attention is paid to family recollections, their importance for the creation of the war memory by older generations, and their gradual disappearance from younger generations. The article documents the change of the perspective with which the youngest generation remembers the Second World War and stresses the emotional engagement of remembering. It argues that holocaust memory is well included into the Czech collective memory but in a new form shaped by the new culture of remembering. |
