“Surrounded by Friends” in the Land of the Perpetrators?

2025/12/15 by Sarah Grandke, Gwen Clayton
Psychology · Arts and Humanities · #Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration #Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis #German History and Society

paper · doi:10.25355/jcwr-3a12

Abstract

What is left of life after the concentration camp? With the help of private photo albums from two Polish survivors, this essay examines the existence of Displaced Persons in postwar Germany and Australia – a story of forced displacement, political pressure and the attempt to leave the past behind and dare to make a new beginning.

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