title: ["Suddenly I was all alone": traumatic experiences of a 12 year old girl during the "Operation Gomorrha" and its transmission over three generations].
abstract: Air strikes on Hamburg in 1943 ("Operation Gomorrha") were a historical turning point and had a deep impact on both cityscape and history of Hamburg. Little is known about intraindividual and transgenerational consequences as well as its interaction with societal and historical processes. Aiming at closing this gap interviews with witnesses, their children and grandchildren, as well as the whole family, were conducted in the context of an interdisciplinary research project. Based on the example of an interview with a at the time of the "Operation Gomorrha" eleven years old witness, her daughter, and grandson the biographical localisation of war experiences and transgenerational transmission will be explained and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Hamburg. bmoeller@uke.de
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lamparter
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiegand-Grefe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology; D054540:Child, Orphaned / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D047789:World War II; D055815:Young Adult