"My father came to Switzerland with the Red Cross in 1945 after the liberation of the Buchenwald camp. He was 19 at the time and completely alone: his father, his mother and his sister had all been gassed in Treblinka. He later married my mother, who was an orphan. My father was fine with that. He couldn’t stand intact families with numerous relatives. It made his own loss much more painful"
Born in 1963, Daniel Gerson is the son of a Holocaust survivor. In the late 1960s, his father became a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel. He is a historian who specializes in modern Jewish history and a lecturer at the University of Bern. His coming to terms with his history as a descendant of a Holocaust survivor shows that the experience of the Holocaust has a strong impact on the lives of the second generation.