There are few more finger-nail-on-blackboard jarring bromides than “the right side of history”. History is normatively written by the victors, but with war there are only victims. Some victims can be respected, honoured and forgiven; many cannot. Yom HaShoah on April 23rd was the first official Holocaust Memorial day. Established in Israel in 1951 to coincide with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, it took another 54 years before the UN designated January 27th International Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, as Passover and Easter coincide, I reflect on how Holocaust memorialisation has become much more complex than constructing monuments to...
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