Lost and Re-Emerging Knowledge: the Role of Rurality and (Non-)Rurality in Two Sisters’ Post-Migrant Narratives of their Parents’ Second World War Forced Labour
Journal: Journal of Migration History
Year: 2025

Abstract This article investigates differences in two half-sisters’ (Anita Diestler and Schenja Wrobel) narratives about their (step-)parents’ forced migration and subsequent employment as forced labourers, as well as their own experiences as members of a post-migrant generation. The half-sisters were born as Heimatlose Ausländer (a specific type of ‘stateless foreigner’) in Bavarian villages in the late 1950s and early 1960s, respectively. Diestler was still living there when she was interviewe