Language:
French
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers Français
Angaben zur Quelle:
303 (2001) 83-88
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Commemoration
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Describes the stages of Holocaust remembrance which have led to its prominence today in European consciousness. States that in the ghettos Jews wrote diaries and collected written testimonies in order to fight Nazi "memocide", a task taken over by Yiddish poets and by survivors who wrote memoirs after the war. But the Shoah entered public consciousness only with the Eichmann trial - a lesson in history, a stimulation for Holocaust education, and the first time survivors took the stand. After the crisis of 1967-68, triggered by the Six-Day War and centering around the international memorial in Auschwitz and Polish antisemitism, the subject of the Shoah took hold especially in France and the U.S. Discusses the ongoing process of Americanization of the Shoah since the 1980s, and French guilt and compensation to survivors.
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