Inter-generational trauma affects many people. Whether it results from the distant family trauma of slavery, or the more recent trauma of having suffered childhood abuse, or of a parent needing to flee his or her country of origin --- the impact on the next or subsequent generations can be profound. Helen Fremont movingly writes about her experience as the child of Holocaust survivors in her memoir The Escape Artist. She describes how the silence and mystery of her parents' experiences profoundly affected her and her sister. I recommend it highly.