In this paper, I investigate the transcultural archives that surface in writings of German-Jewish authors who have a background in migration from East to West. In The Generation of Memory (2012), Marianne Hirsch points out an ”archival impulse characteristic of the aesthetic and ethical practices of postmemory that situate themselves in the specific aftermath of historical catastrophe.” By investigating Katja Petrowskaja’s novel Vielleicht Esther (2014) as well as Vladimir Verlibs novels Schimons Schweigen (2015) and Mein erster Mörder (2012), I investigate how various national and private archives interrelate in the search for individual identity and thus forge a transcultural representation of Europe’s traumatic past.