Abstract
In the Czech Republic, historical trauma can be studied, for instance, in a sample of victims of the so-called Operation "Asanace" ("sanitation"), where the persecution affected several hundred people. The State Security used psychological and physical terror, such as job loss, driver's license loss, ban on children's education, multiple interrogations, humiliation, repeated two-day stays in pre-detention cells, anonymous letters, persecution, physical assault, and threatening.
The research project focuses on the integration of qualitative (interviews) and quantitative data (self-reports) for respondents from the first, second and third generation. While the first generation experienced state violence directly, the second and third generations heard about it from their parents or others.
In this text we focus on the evaluation of the pilot quantitative data and point out the similarities and differences between the three generations. We developed a hypothese, that experimental group will exhibit signs of the fading of trauma; G1 will be more traumatized than G2 and G3.
The PTSD Checklist - Civilian Version, The Impact of Event Scale-Revised, The Posttraumatic growth inventory and several other self-report measure were used. The intergenerational comparison of results is discussed in the context of social changes in the 20th and 21st centuries and intergenerational relations.