Pamięć w tradycji żydowskiej i chrześcijańskiej
Memory in Jewish and Christian Tradition

Summary/Abstract: The memory has a special meaning both in the Jewish as well as the Christian tradition.It differs from other religious and cultural traditions. Its heart comes fromthe commandments Zakhor, Remember which means the permanent actualisationof the events which founded and essentially shaped the identity of Jews andChristians. The notion of zikkaron (memorial) reveals the duty to be in relationwith the past in function of the present and the future in order not to be separatedfrom God. Thus these two traditions allow to their believers to discover andnot to lose the very sense of the human life with its most challenging aspects assuffering, weakness and death. Probably the most influential event in the historywithin this path of reflection was the Shoah, erroneously named Holocaust, thecata strophe which happened to the Jewish people in result of the Nazi ideology.If we don’t include this horrifying genocide into the Jewish, Christian and humanhistory as a subject of a deep biblical and profound thinking, we cannot avoid twotraps: to be fixed and lost in the past or to lose our memory and identity.

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