This chapter gives an insight into post-memories, forms of remembrances and transgenerational transmission of traumatic memories after genocidal processes. The mass violence on the Êzîdî during World War I is a hidden genocide, long time silenced and denied. About 12.000 Êzîdîs managed to seek refuge from the genocidal persecution and fled to Armenia. Due to political developments in the Soviet Republic of Armenia a collective memory could not have been shaped. Herein the oral historical accounts, oral literature and recitations were crucial for upholding the remembrance. The fate of the Êzîdî communities in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century was hardly a research topic and has not gained (inter)national acknowledgement and awareness. In collecting post-memories, thus the memories of incidents told by the upcoming generations of survivors, this chapter explores the reasons for the decades long silencing, the source situation and gives an insight into the orally transmitted knowledge and today’s memories.

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Post-Memories of Genocidal Violence. The Case of the Êzîdî during World War I

  • Maria Six-Hohenbalken

摘要

This chapter gives an insight into post-memories, forms of remembrances and transgenerational transmission of traumatic memories after genocidal processes. The mass violence on the Êzîdî during World War I is a hidden genocide, long time silenced and denied. About 12.000 Êzîdîs managed to seek refuge from the genocidal persecution and fled to Armenia. Due to political developments in the Soviet Republic of Armenia a collective memory could not have been shaped. Herein the oral historical accounts, oral literature and recitations were crucial for upholding the remembrance. The fate of the Êzîdî communities in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century was hardly a research topic and has not gained (inter)national acknowledgement and awareness. In collecting post-memories, thus the memories of incidents told by the upcoming generations of survivors, this chapter explores the reasons for the decades long silencing, the source situation and gives an insight into the orally transmitted knowledge and today’s memories.