The children of war

trauma and transmission

Abstract

This article takes as its starting point the events of World War II, which shattered the illusions that Western civilization may have built about itself and left the 20th century marked by horror. It is stated that the second generation, referred to here as the “Children of War”, was profoundly impacted by the effects of the transmission of “Zones of Silence”, spaces resulting from the traumatic impact experienced by the generation of Shoah survivors.