The article analyzes the series Generation War (Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter, 2013) to explore how melodramatic fiction contributes to the collective memory of Nazi Germany as Holocaust witnesses gradually disappear. A content analysis of the series’ three episodes is based on the hypothesis that emotional narratives can influence the preservation of memories and intergenerational dialogue about Hitler’s crimes. This analysis employs nine categories derived from the literature on audiovisual melodramatic modes: victim-characters, threatening forces, nostalgia, spaces of innocence, suspense, redemptive death, narrative logic disruptions, random fate, and moral reading pact. The findings show that Generation War incorporates these emotional elements to present a representation that combines both critique and understanding of the Nazi past. This demonstrates that melodrama can overcome...

This article describes the main characteristics and the impact in the community of a school support program led by university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study recovers the voices of the people involved in the university volunteer program: undergraduate students, children and families. The program was developed in a primary health center dependent of a private University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The health center provides integral attention to underprivileged families. COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inadequate living conditions and affected the possibilities of the educationalcontinuity in children (Tuñón, 2021). The school support program´s aim was to guide children´s learnings in a personalized way. The analysis of the surveys completed by the university students who led the program and the workshops with children and their families reveals that the partic...

This article describes the main characteristics and the impact in the community of a school support program led by university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study recovers the voices of the people involved in the university volunteer program: undergraduate students, children and families. The program was developed in a primary health center dependent of a private University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The health center provides integral attention to underprivileged families. COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inadequate living conditions and affected the possibilities of the educationalcontinuity in children (Tuñón, 2021). The school support program´s aim was to guide children´s learnings in a personalized way. The analysis of the surveys completed by the university students who led the program and the workshops with children and their families reveals that the partic...