This master thesis (December 2022) deals with the author's own family history, based on eyewitness interviews with her grandmother, who was born in 1932, during the National Socialist era. The focus is on the family's everyday life on the Old Mark farm and the grandmother's school years. The memories of the witness are embedded in political, social and economic processes of the years 1930 - 1945. In the course of this, a look at the research field of oral history is taken. Furthermore, this master thesis explores the question of the role of generational memory, especially in connection with the experience of the Second World War, in family history. In doing so, the question is discussed to what extent family history represents a resource of contemporary history that should be preserved. (Abstract)