A war against memory? Nativizing the Holocaust

How many ways can the Holocaust be remembered and still retain integrity? We are offered contrasting glimpses at sites as diverse as Auschwitz-Birkenau and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is argued that, even if the popular media do tend to sentimentalise, vulgarise and trivialise the Holocaust in their motion pictures and television mini-series, this is perhaps preferable to allowing it to fade from consciousness altogether.