How has the Holocaust been memorialized?

Answer 1

There is a museum in Europe where you can see all the objects that the Nazis took away from the Jews. For example, there are millions of pairs of shoes, glasses and the clothes of the people who were killed. There is also a memorial in the shape of a hand.

Answer 2

It very much should be remembered because if it isn't, then it just may happen again. How, would be simple. There are Actually Holocaust memorial museums that you can visit to fully understand how the camps worked, why the Jews died, etc.

Answer 3

An event such as the Holocaust should always be remembered as it is a historical event and a sensless waste of human life. It is not the only example nor is it the most extreme. Here are some statistics of other autrocities;VictimsLeader / RegimeSite of Atrocities30 MillionChairman MaoChina20 MillionJoseph StalinUSSR10 MillionHirohito / JapanAsia10 MillionLeopold II / BelgiumCongo, Africa8.5 MillionHitler / Third ReichEurope3.2 MillionQueen Victoria / UKIreland, Africa, Asia2 MillionPol Pot / Khmer RougeCambodia1.5 MillionOttoman EmpireArmenian Genocide

Answer 4

In the period between the end of World War 2 and about 1970 the Holocaust was not widely discussed, and the Jews were generally not considered a 'special category' among the victims of Nazi oppression and mass murder, though the figure of six million was known and it was also known that the Jews had been subjected to genocide, whereas others had not, apart from the Romanies. The word holocaust was hardly used in the context of World War 2 and its main use was in the term nuclear holocaust - the feared destruction that would result from nuclear war.

There were practically no films on the Holocaust; there were very few books on the subject, and there was certainly nothing glamorous about being a Holocaust Survivor. Victimhood was not held in high regard. On the contrary, it was seen as unheroic.

All this has changed. In many countries there are now museums devoted to the Holocaust; TV programmes and books - many of them not very good - proliferate on the subject. Some schoolkids learning about the Holocaust seem very keen to interview survivors; public bodies finance school trips to Auschwitz and so on.

We have 27 January as Holocaust Memorial Day ... The British parliament in 2010 (!) formally named about twenty Britons who rescued people from the Holocaust British Heroes of the Holocaust, and they are entitled to put the letters BHH after their names (except that all but two of them were dead when the award was made).

There is something a little odd in this memorialization so long after the event.

See also Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life