forgiveness to come: the Holocaust and the hyper-ethical

This text addresses the difficulties posed by the Holocaust for a thinking of forgiveness inherited from the Abrahamic (i.e., monotheistic) tradition. As a way to approach these difficulties, it explores the often radically divergent positions in the debate on forgiveness in the literature of Holocaust survivors. Discusses Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower, Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits, Vladimir Jankevitch's Forgiveness, Robert Antelme's The Human Race and Forgiving Doctor Mengele on Eva Mozes Kor in the light of Jacques Derrida's concept of forgiveness of the unforgivable.