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Walk on Water (Dan Diner (Creates two groups - Victim and Perpetrator…

- - - - A starting point for self understanding. Community of opposites.
        
        Memory of Auschwitz has gained ever greater weight in contemporary consciousness.
  - - - Creates a situation where Jewish reminders of Holocaust cause anger amongst Germans. Anti-semitism as a result of Auschwitz?
      - Attempts in vain.
    - - Fear of revenge passed down the generations. Axel and Pia's parents.
        
        Mother's suspicion of Eyal.
  - - - Cannot bear that something so horrible happened to their loved ones.
      - Making Holocaust an exclusively Jewish destruction- Creates a feeling of national martyrdom, allowing Israel freedom to do whatever it wants.
      - Surviving an act of luck is not fitting with the Zionist view of Israel as a reaction to the Holocaust.
        
        This covered memory allows survivors and their families a purpose. A sense that they survived for Zionist reasons and not by pure chance.
    - - A means to rid ones self of guilt.
- - - - Therefore, Eyal, Axel and Pia are all active in their roles as 3rd generation and share a common similarity.
        
        Similarity only superficial. Different ways of dealing with past based different upbringing and different family type (victim of perpetrator).
        
        Victim families
        
        Families of camp survivors have themes of death and fear of extermination.
        
        Families of forced emigrants tend to block of the themes of emigration and focus on feelings of being Sabras (Israeli born).
        
        Eyal- Feelings of overt masculinity.
        
        Perpetrator families
        
        Protecting themselves from having to confront cruel, racist and cold deeds of their closet reference individuals.
        
        Break off contact with family members. Pia.
        
        Denial of relative's deeds.
        
        Family myth of victimhood of family members. Axel and Pia's mother. Perpetrator victimhood inversion. 2nd generation usually silent.
        
        Shifting blame to Jews themselves.
        
        Claims of harassment and victimisation by Jews.
        
        Anti-semitism from the Holocaust.