restricted the civil rights of the Jews with the Government regulation no. 39/1939. The term “Jew” was defined on a religious basis. The said regulation, among other things, regulated the number of Jews in certain free professions. Another Government regulation no. 230/1939, modified the military duty of Jews and the Jews were transferred to the special labor camps. On April 25 1940, the Slovak Parliament passed Act no. 113/1940, known as the Aryanization Act. The act on the deportation of Jews was adopted on March 24 1942, and the first transportation unit was dispatched the next day, based on the regulation of the Prime Minister, Vojtech Tuka (Mlynárik 2005). Trauma develops as a result of shock from the sudden succession of negative events for which an individual was not prepared, and from the consequences of these events. As a result, there is a distortion or degradation of individual and collective histories and their value and normative foundations. Experiencing a trauma can be understood as a sociological process, defined by a painful injury to the collectivity, which creates a victim, creates an attribute of responsibility and spreads the spiritual and material consequences. If trauma is “experienced, thought, and externally manifested in a certain way”, it will be defined in the collective identity of the respective group, and its presence will cause the necessary revision of the collective identity forms (Alexander et al. 2004). The trauma of the Holocaust as a result of group hatred and violence undermined the very instinctive basis. Thanatos, represented in the consciousness by the guilt category, dominated in the areas that should be ruled by Eros, self-acceptance and acceptance of others. At the level of the individual psyche, the Holocaust trauma causes a loss of sense, hope and love. This leads to the emergence of depressive disorders and various manifestations of traumatophilia when an individual repeatedly and consistently develops a tendency to self-destruction. Transmission of intergenerational trauma occurred as a result of Jewish children living with severely traumatized parents. Some of them had vivid and terrifying nightmares about the concentration camps, cattle wagons, torture, living skeletons and gas chambers, even though they were born years after these events occurred. Children from the second generation were often named after dead family members who became the victims of the Holocaust. In addition to their own lives, they lived the lives of the dead family members and were often reminded of it. In fear of losing another child, in a mood of hypercompensation, the children were overwhelmed with love and care from their parents in the safety of their homes, often in isolation to be protected from being hurt by society. This developed an environment in which a child lost her or his identity. Intergenerational communication patterns between parents who experienced various traumas and their offspring have been described in families of Holocaust survivors (Felsen 1998; Auerhahn and Laub 1998). An intergenerational communication pattern referred to as the “conspiracy of silence” has been found to be prevalent in families of Spirituality Studies 1 (1) Spring 2015 125 (3)
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