Projected Memory

The essay Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs, by Marianne Hirsch, is about “postmemory”. Postmemory is a term that Hirsch has coined. It is “memory that is not the product of direct or lived experience but that is produced by the stories and images that circulate from one generation to the next, evidenced in the ways children remember the memories of their parents” (Bartholomae 399). It focuses on how children of Holocaust survivors remember the Holocaust through there …

…never been there. She gets these mental images from the stories that her parents have told her. He parents lived in Czernowitz before they were forced to move during World War II. She speaks as if she lived in Czernowitz before the war. “Postmemory is not an identity position, but space of remembrance” (Hirsch 407). It is through postmemory that she and all the other authors are able to tell the stories are contained in Hirsh