Jewish civil resistance and the slow emergence of the memory of the Holocaust in Belgium
TitreJewish civil resistance and the slow emergence of the memory of the Holocaust in Belgium
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0586
N° d'objet11416d
Lieu de publicationBern, Switzerland
EditeurPeter Lang AG
Année de publication
2021
Paginationpp71-83
MatérielArticle
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