Author ORCID Identifier
0000-0003-3151-5544
Abstract
This graphic story is set on a farm in Southern Namibia in the present. The white owner of the farm, Jacobs, treats the Nama farm worker Frederick badly – to the disapproval of the latter’s teenage daughter Katrina. The farm owner’s daughter Frida returns home from a study trip to Cape Town, where she found out that her great-grandmother was Jewish and had escaped the Shoah. She speaks to Frederick about this, and he shares with her that his own great-grandmother, who had worked as a servant for Frida’s great-grandmother, was a survivor of the German genocide committed against the Nama. We—a Namibian artist, who lived as a refugee in Germany during the colonization of Namibia, and a German scholar, whose family members have taken part in the colonization of Namibia and perished in the Shoah—explore the traces between past and present, the interconnectedness of genocide memory, and the question of recognition and reparation for legacies of violence.
Recommended Citation
Bendix, Daniel and Werner, Hangula
(2025)
"Tracking Trauma: German Genocides at Home and Abroad,"
Kritika Kultura:
No.
46, Article 24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2173
Available at:
https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss46/24
