Remembering the Holocaust

I found this interesting article which directly relates to the conversation we had in class last monday. The author talks a lot about the movies/mini-series mentioned in the film (specifically Schindler's List and Holocaust). She raises an interesting point about the prevalence of Holocaust memorials and whether they, like film representations, trivialize the atrocity since they themselves are commercial enterprises. Ultimately she references statements made by historian Carl Becker--essentially stating that "without knowledge there is no memory" and concludes a well constructed argument about the importance of knowledge in order to remember (not to relive or even understand) atrocities like the Final Solution.