Somatic Memory of Historical Violence

Transgenerational Epigenetics of Trauma – the Shoah, Antisemitism, and Racism

Somatic Memory of Historical Violence

Transgenerational Epigenetics of Trauma –
the Shoah, Antisemitism, and Racism

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The Podcast “Invisible Wound” von Sharon Ryba-Kahn is part of the project “Hakara – facing transgenerational trauma” by AMCHA Germany. In one episode, we meet Jacqueline Saki Aslan, a German-Yazidi artist who was born in Germany to speak about the meaning of collective, transgenerational trauma in her work and personal life as we do with all of our guests on Invisible Wound. In 2014, the Islamic state committed genocide against Yazidis. How did she respond and feel when the genocide was committed against her brothers and sisters, and how did her environment respond to her? She draws many conclusions, but one aspect is key, namely her deep belief that “joy as a way of resistance.”

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