“Schwarcz’s illness is a legacy handed down through the generations; trauma and biology combined. Schwarz’s father, a Hungarian Jew, was 19 years old in 1944 when he was loaded onto a cattle car bound for Bergen-Belsen. His own father, riding in the same car, pushed him out with the single word — “Run!” #legacy #HolocaustLegacy #SecondGeneration #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/books/memoir-depression-luiz-schwarcz.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

In case you're dying to read my Master's Thesis, Emerging Constitutive Rhetorics: Maus' Re-Interpellation of the Second Generation, it is now available for your digital perusal. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.x56545&view=1up&seq=13
I may have left academia but I never left the story behind. So much of what I learned while writing this thesis influenced the Chasing Portraits project. #Rhetoric #SecondGeneration #ChildrenOfSurvivors #Maus #HolocaustLegacy