Victimhood and acknowledgement The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators on the one hand and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then if the victims are moved centre stage If the focus is put on their suffering their agency their helplessness or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society politics and media If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods including visual history. Not least they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence a question highly relevant up to the present day