Justice matters: legacies of the Holocaust and World War II

Mona Sue Weissmark9780195157574, 0195157575

In the fall of 1992, in a small room in Boston, MA, an extraordinary meeting took place. For the first time, the sons and daughters of Holocaust victims met face-to-face with the children of Nazis for a fascinating research project to discuss the intersections of their pasts and the painful legacies that history has imposed on them. Taking that remarkable gathering as its starting point, Justice Matters illustrates how the psychology of hatred and ethnic resentments is passed from generation to generation. Psychologist Mona Weissmark, herself the child of Holocaust survivors, argues that justice is profoundly shaped by emotional responses. In her in-depth study of the legacy encountered by these children, Weissmark found, not surprisingly, that in the face of unjust treatment, the natural response is resentment and deep anger-and, in most cases, an overwhelming need for revenge. Weissmark argues that, while legal systems offer a structured means for redressing injustice, they have rarely addressed the emotional pain, which, left unresolved, is then passed along to the next generation-leading to entrenched ethnic tension and group conflict.

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Table of contents :
TeamLib……Page 1
Cover……Page 2
Table of Contents……Page 11
1 Introduction……Page 15
2 Background……Page 34
3 Justice as Intergenerational……Page 50
4 Justice as Interpersonal……Page 77
5 Justice Has Two Sides……Page 104
6 Justice as Compassion……Page 132
7 Concluding Remarks……Page 175
References……Page 193
Index……Page 205