Long-term intergenerational transmission of memories of the Vajont disaster.

Objective: Previous literature documented the traumatic consequences of exposure to disasters on psychological functioning, but little attention has been paid to the intergenerational transmission of the memory of disasters. We explored long-term effects on the memory of the Vajont dam disaster in Northeast Italy that claimed 1,910 lives in 1963.

Method: We collected data from 52 two-generation families in which the first generations were born before the disaster and the second generations after.