Remembering the Holocaust. An Inquiry into the Fascinating and Intricate World of Holocaust Memory
Remembering the Holocaust. An Inquiry into the Fascinating and Intricate World of Holocaust Memory

Summary/Abstract: It happened 60 years ago, far and away from our daily lives. Far and away from our universities, work places, families and hometowns. They say almost six million people died in it. Yet, people die all around the world… There are only few survivors, generally old people of whom we hardly hear something. Now and then there are impressive ceremonies where you can see important statesmen, smartly dressed, with serious and meditative expressions on their faces paying their respect to the victims of the Holocaust… Even so… apparently… what is now labeled as “the Holocaust” has little to do with our every day existences, as there is no longer a Hitler among political leaders, no more SS officers to perpetrate crimes, no World War taking place… Therefore, the following question comes naturally to one’s mind: why remember the Holocaust? Why maintain, keep alive and pass to our children the memory of that horrendous “rupture of civilization”?

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