Judt discusses proper ways to remember the Holocaust

Judt spoke of the problems involved in the commemoration of World War II and the Holocaust. He began his talk by outlining three notable “misapprehensions” regarding the war’s aftermath. Judt’s first point was that Europe has lived beneath the shadow of the Holocaust since 1945. His second and third points were that the genocide is the heritage of all Europeans today, and that memorializing the event is invariably important. Judt dealt with the false belief that Europe has been darkened by the