"We Remember Only the Atrocities" and Other Signs of Amnesia (Part One)

The word ‘amnesia’ keeps haunting me. When people and countries embrace forgetfulness, do the lessons of genocide also vanish?

(Pictured above: Shoes on the Danube Bank memorial to honour Jews massacred by the Arrow Cross Party.)

This section is part of my memoir in progress, that for now I’m dubbing The Bubbe Tapes. It follows my research into my grandmother’s story, the legacy of the Holocaust for descendants and what it will mean for the next generation. I hope you will follo…