Filming the generations: Holocaust survivors and their children

States that immediately after the liberation of the concentration camps, film emerged as an important vehicle for documenting the Holocaust and conveying the shock of extreme atrocity. In these films the children are recorders and participants, and they function as mediators between surviving parents and contemporaries. The films demonstrate the impossibility of children knowing their parents' past. Films, like literature 'implicate the Holocaust in the construction of postwar Jewish identity'