Marianne Hirsch, former Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference and co-director of past working groups including Women Mobilizing Memory, Reframing Gendered Violence, and Engendering the Archive was interviewed by the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) in their Observing Memories Magazine. In the interview, Professor Hirsch spoke about the transmission of trauma across generations, the role of memory in social movements, and memory’s ability to strengthen democracy.