Uncle Joe’s return to Sögel
Psychoanalyst Dr. Kurt Grünberg (Sigmund Freud Institute) gave a lecture on 31 March 2022 on so-called Kindertransporte (children’s transports) and the transmission of transgenerational trauma. The focus was on the story of his uncle Joe, who escaped to England with a Kindertransport. The children were saved – we often hear this in conversations about the so-called Kindertransporte (children’s transports). But what does a rescue of this kind mean for the people who managed to escape the fate that met most of their relatives? Were they prepared for what awaited them? Would it even have been possible to prepare them? How did they fare in exile? And after they grew up, what did the escapees teach their own children – particularly at a subconscious level? Dr. Kurt Grünberg's lecture focused on the concept of scenic memory of the Shoah and the story of his uncle Joe, who escaped to England on a so-called Kindertransport (children’s transport)