Denial: Thoughts on a Movie, Memories of a Trial
Richard J. Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus of History University of Cambridge
Tag: Holocaust
The multiple forms of the banalization of the Holocaust. The Memory Monster
In this novel, the author analyses, criticizes and denounces a key feature of his own social reality: the trivialization of the Holocaust through its spaces of memory, and through the various mechanisms of memorial transmission, both in his homeland, Israel, and abroad. This trivialization takes the form of a memory monster.
Learning to learn from History
GĂ©raldine Schwarz
French-German writer, journalist and filmmaker, author of the bestseller âThose Who Forget: My Familyâs Story in Nazi Europe â A Memoir, a History, a Warningâ
âMemory studies are a fruitful site to think citizenship beyond the bounds of nation-states”
Social networks are just that â networks â webs of transmission that intersect and overlap. Memory also circulates through webs and networks, as different groups define themselves and their identities according to certain understandings of the past, understandings that can conflict with those of other groups. When versions of the recollected past are built and circulate through social media, they are supported by the likes and dislikes, the agreements and disagreements that these platforms enable.
Travelling memory of the Holocaust âAuschwitz: Not long ago. Not far awayâ
An exhibition that aspires to spread the history of a place as cruelly unique as Auschwitz | Picture: David GonzĂĄlez, EUROM. By David GonzĂĄlez VĂĄzquez, Assistant professor at the Department of Applied Didactics of the University of Barcelona, project manager at EUROM September 2018, Madrid. The second extension of the Exhibition âAuschwitz: Not long ago. …
âThe long shadow of the pastâ in the short light of present.
Picture: Horst Hoheisel, Die Tore der Deutschen, 1997, lighting display on the Brandenburg Gate. By Horst Hoheisel, Artist Aleida Assmann, who will be awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade together with her husband Jan Assmann this year (14 October 2018), has chosen one of my works (1) as the title image for …
Time, Memory and History. At the crossroads of European Memory. By Henry Rousso
Henry Rousso Senior researcher at the Institut dâHistoire du Temps PrĂ©sent (CNRS, Paris) Version reviewed and corrected by the author For an extended reading check also: Rousso, Henry. Face au passĂ©. Essais sur la mĂ©moire contemporaine, Paris, Belin, 2016 The need to understand the past and provide a collective representation of history is anything but …