Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

The Mediterranean Sea is considered one of the deadliest of any known ›migration route‹ in the world. For years, thousands of people have been dying there every year trying to get into the European Union. In response to the increase of the...

With the help of the so-called Kindertransports to Great Britain, about 10.000 children and adolescents between the ages of three and 17 were rescued in the ten months before the outbreak of war on September 1st in 1939. This report provides an...

Considering the fact that more and more children and adolescents are being removed from their previous family and social relationships and are living in youth welfare institutions, the question arises as to whether and how these socially prescribed...

How do people live and survive in between the frontlines of war, in ›zones of counter-terrorist operation‹ and other situations marked by unlimited violence and the inextricable entanglement of legislation and arbitrariness, law and torture? On...

This article deals with sexualised violence against Jewish women in the National Socialist concentration and extermination camps. First, the various forms of violence in the camps explicitly affecting women are presented. In more detail, the article...