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Various aspects of the knock-on effects of East Indies colonial influences, two wars, migration and reception in the Netherlands are discussed. For their film, Simone Berger and Armando Ello went in search of the transmission of transgenerational (war) trauma on the second and third postwar generation with an Indian and/or Moluccan background.

Authors Reggie Baay, Marion Bloem, Adriaan van Dis, Dido Michielsen and Sylvia Pessireron incorporated their family histories into their works and look back on them in a candid manner. They grew up with (grand)parents with unprocessed traumas. The interviews are supplemented with 2D animations that show in an accessible way the influence of stress and anxiety on the body and brain.

Clinical psychologist and psyc...

Various aspects of the knock-on effects of East Indies colonial influences, two wars, migration and reception in the Netherlands are discussed. For their film, Simone Berger and Armando Ello went in search of the transmission of transgenerational (war) trauma on the second and third postwar generation with an Indian and/or Moluccan background.

Authors Reggie Baay, Marion Bloem, Adriaan van Dis, Dido Michielsen and Sylvia Pessireron incorporated their family histories into their works and look back on them in a candid manner. They grew up with (grand)parents with unprocessed traumas. The interviews are supplemented with 2D animations that show in an accessible way the influence of stress and anxiety on the body and brain.

Clinical psychologist and psychotherapist Schelfhout, together with Berger, wrote the script for the 2D animation. Schelfhout and two trauma specialists provide insight into how (war) trauma can be passed on from generation to generation. They also give insight into the period after 1945, when migrants and returnees found no listening ear after arriving in Holland and adapting became their credo. They emphasize the importance of processing so that the transmission of traumas can be stopped.

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