Introduction: History and Conceptual Foundations.- I. The Nazi Holocaust.- 1. Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust.- 2. Transgenerational Transmission of Effects of the Holocaust: The North American Research Perspective.- 3. Transgenerational Effects of the Holocaust: The Israeli Research Perspective.- 4. Children of Nazis: A Psychodynamic Perspective.- 5. "Who Am I in Relation to My Past, in Relation to the Other?" German and Israeli Students Confront the Holocaust and Each Other.- II. World War II.- 6. Conflicts in Adjustment: World War II Prisoners of War and Their Families.- 7. Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Internment.- 8. The Second Generation of Hibakusha, Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Psychologist's View.- 9. Children of Dutch War Sailors and Civilian Resistance Veterans.- 10. Children of Collaborators: From Isolation toward Integration.- 11. Intergenerational Effects in Families of World War II Survivors from the Dutch East Indies: Aftermath of Another Dutch War.- III. Genocide.- 12. The Turkish Genocide of the Armenians: Continuing Effects on Survivors and Their Families Eight Decades after Massive Trauma.- 13. The Effects of Massive Trauma on Cambodian Parents and Children.- IV. The Vietnam War.- 14. Warrior Fathers and Warrior Sons: Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma.- 15. Children of Military Personnel Missing in Action in Southeast Asia.- 16. The Legacy of Combat Trauma: Clinical Implications of Intergenerational Transmission.- V. Intergenerational Effects Revealed after the Fall of Communism.- 17. Intergenerational Aspects of the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia.- 18. Three Generations within Jewish and non-Jewish German Families after the Unification of Germany.- 19. Intergenerational Responses to Social and Political Changes:Transformation of Jewish Identity in Hungary.- VI. Indigenous Peoples.- 20. Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma for Australian Aboriginal People.- 21. Healing the American Indian Soul Wound.- 22. The Role of Dependency and Colonialism in Generating Trauma in First Nations Citizens: The James Bay Cree.- 23. Intergenerational Aspects of Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: The Nigerian Experience.- 24. Black Psychological Functioning and the Legacy of Slavery: Myths and Realities.- VII. Repressive Regimes.- 25. Stalin's Purge and Its Impact on Russian Families.- 26. The Social Process and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Chile.- 27. Transmission of Trauma: The Argentine Case.- 28. The Impact of Culture on the Transmission of Trauma: Refugees' Stories and Silence Embodied in Their Children's Lives.- 29. The Second Bullet: Transgenerational Impacts of the Trauma of Conflict within a South African and World Context.- 30. Intergenerational Responses to the Persecution of the Baha'is of Iran.- VIII. Domestic Violence and Crime.- 31. Intergenerational Child Maltreatment.- 32. An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence.- 33. Violence: Effects of Parents' Previous Trauma on Currently Traumatized Children.- IX. Infectious and Life-Threatening Diseases.- 34. AIDS and Its Traumatic Effects on Families.- 35. Daughters of Breast Cancer Patients: Genetic Legacies and Traumas.- X. The Emerging Biology of Intergenerational Trauma.- 36. Psychobiology of Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Evidence from Animal Studies.- 37. Phenomenology and Psychobiology of the Intergenerational Response to Trauma.- 38. Initial Clinical Evidence of Genetic Contributions to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Conclusions and FutureDirections.