Between past and future: memory of the Holocaust as a collective cultural trauma and its commemoration by the third generation in Israel

During the years that preceded the establishment of the State of Israel, Holocaust survivors in Israel were met with suspicion and at times outright hostility. After the Six Day War Israeli attiudes towards the victims and survivors began to change. Research found that not only is the Holocaust an important component of the construction of Jewish-Israeli identity, but also that it affects many of their opinions about the present and the future