My paper will present the outcomes of a recent empirical survey conducted with two generations in the present‑day Czech Republic. The first generation lived the majority of their lives under the Communist regime while the second generation was born after the fall of Communism. The analysis revealed an important generational gap in the way the Second World War is remembered and perceived. While the older generation preferred to construct the Second World War rather as set of home events focused on the traditional „Communist" narrative of persecution and resistance, the younger generation tended to perceive the Second World War in more abstract, globalized and „western" terms with the Holocaust as a key element. The paper emphasizes a fact important for the present‑day Czech collective identities; this means the tendency of the young generation to perceive the war in abstract terms, similarly to their Western European counterparts, but incorporating a home narrative of suffering. Altogether, the survey shows that the Communist narrative of European and world events of the Second World War in both generations has been almost abandonned and a new, European and globalized narrative is competing with a traditional narrative of home events.
