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When your ancestral home is destroyed before you can share it

My grandmother died three years ago and I never got to take my daughter to see the village where she was born because of the war, and now there's nothing left to show her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The interruption of intergenerational transmission creates a profound rupture in the continuity of identity and belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost homeland — diaspora mourning?”

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