The concept of postmemory refers to the long-term effects on subsequent generations from living in close proximity to the pain, depression, and dissociation of persons who have witnessed and survived massive historical trauma. In other words, subsequent generations still feel the indirect effects of trauma that their parents and grandparents experienced. This phenomenon is especially relevant now, because although many of the individuals who were adults during the civil war are no longer alive, the trauma of the war still lives on in younger generations who continue to feel the pain of loss and the oppression of the postwar period.