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TeenzCollege Maastricht University
The Holocaust History and Memory
January 28, 2014 : History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS)
Prof. Georgi Verbeeck
The Holocaust in History and Memory
Holocaust or Shoah :6.000.000 Jews killed by Nazi Germany(genocide)How was it possible?
After 1945Why keeping
memories alive?
The “road to Auschwitz” :From ideology to
industrial mass murder
1. Ideology (Anti-Semitism) 2. Discrimination
and exclusion 3. Deportation to
the ghetto’s 4. “Euthanasia” program 5. War on the Eastern front 6. Industrial mass murder
6. Industrial mass murder
Auschwitz
Remembrance
“The memory of Europe’s dead Jews has become the very definition and guarantee of the continent’s restored humanity.” (Tony Judt, The House of the Living Dead, in : Postwar, 2006)