Jewish civil resistance and the slow emergence of the memory of the Holocaust in Belgium
TitleJewish civil resistance and the slow emergence of the memory of the Holocaust in Belgium
Author
Call number940.5318/0586
Object number11416d
Place of publicationBern, Switzerland
PublisherPeter Lang AG
Year of publication
2021
Physical descriptionpp71-83
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'All our brothers and sisters: Jews saving Jews during the Holocaust.' pp71-83
Description
The memory of the Holocaust has become so omnipresent that it gives rise to a feeling of saturation (hypermnesia). It can be explained by the exceptional nature of the Nazi criminal enterprise, and also by the excesses of the period of near amnesia that preceded it. It was not until 2012 that the Prime Minister of Belgium apologized to the Jewish community, and until 2013 that the Belgian Senate acknowledged the complicity of the state apparatus in the process of destroying the Jews