Holocaust
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Tourism: What did you see in Auschwitz?
26 January 20121617 Télérama Paris -
Demjanjuk trial: Butcher of Sobibor sentenced and released
13 May 20113PresseuropTrouw -
Germany: Diplomacy and the Shoah
29 October 2010PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
History: The evolving memory of the Shoah
21 October 201071 Le Figaro Paris -
History: The Holocaust, a part of who we are
8 May 2010324 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Religion: Jewish and German, new generation
9 February 2010162 Die Zeit Hamburg -
Anniversary: Auschwitz survivors poorly treated
27 January 20101PresseuropFrankfurter Rundschau -
Germany: Chaotic opening to Demjanjuk trial
1 December 2009PresseuropSüddeutsche Zeitung -
Netherlands: Religious caricature in legal tug of war
19 August 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant
Every year more than a million people visit Auschwitz. In the run-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the liberation of the camp on 27 January, Télérama wonders: Is this mass tourism not to some extent a profanation of memory?
The Shoah Memorial in Paris, one of the world’s largest centres for documentation on Jewish memory, continues to collect material for its archives. As one generation gives way to the next, families are more and more willing to hand over objects and documents that define their past.
Sixty-five years after the end of the conflict, the memory of the World War II lives on in the work of new generations of historians, but also, as De Volkskrant points out, because the shoah plays a fundamental role in our European identity.
The Jewish community in Germany, estimated at 200,000, faces its greatest postwar upheaval, what with the immigration waves from the former Soviet republics and a new generation for whom the Holocaust and Israel are faraway matters, writes Die Zeit