Namely, the term culture of remembrance or memory can be defined as a set of mechanisms and processes by which the society transmits, shapes and sustains events of the past, thus creating a basis on which to interpret the present and create the future. Although in our culture of remembrance, women have generally been assigned the role of foster mother and the “head” of the family, women had played and still play a much larger role in all these processes. ![]() She pointed out that the only time her mother talked about it was when she told her that in all that madness since the war, when you weren’t sure if going out would cost you life, she was trying to work, earn some money, in order to be able to buy food for her and her brother.Ī family narrative like this is similar in almost all families, it was women who carried the burden of caring for children and maintaining life during the war. ![]() ![]() A few days ago we were talking with a friend about a family culture of remembrance, and about the conspiracy of silence that exists in almost all families, that is, there is a tacit agreement not to discuss family war.
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