Language:
German
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Identität und Erinnerung
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1990) 154-162
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Analyzes three successive approaches of society and of the educational system in Israel to the Holocaust. For many years, Israelis kept the Holocaust at an emotional distance by demonizing the perpetrators, suppressing the experience of the survivors, blaming or glorifying the victims, and transforming the memory of the Holocaust into ritual. These attitudes were not conducive to objective learning. Interest in learning about the Holocaust arose with the Eichmann trial, leading to an increase in research and an attempt to derive universal lessons for ethics and democracy. A more recent existential approach tries to make young people experience the Holocaust through talks with survivors or trips to Auschwitz. Such traumatic experiences may, however, be misused for political purposes.
Note:
Appeared also in "Der Umgang mit der Shoah", 1993.
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