Witness: a brief reflection on ethics and aesthetics in Jewish literature

• Autor(a) principal: Lilenbaum, Patrícia Chiganer
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/13909
• topic: História; Shoah; Memória; History; Shoah; Memory

Whenever the Shoah is raised – such as the diaspora and the Inquisition, but the Holocaust is the most terrible and closer – whether in schools, family and community meetings, we say that we should remember that the facts do not recur, because forgetting leads to repetition of facts. If the disasters have happened, we remind them to avoid their return, and must honour those who were with the statement of what happened. The memory is similar to justice; the Zakhor Act is writing the history of losers, destroyed, annihilated by the March of history. This writing, being responsible for an account – it is written that the story unfolds – assumes the ethical commitment to remember to prevent new disasters.