The Holocaust’s confinement to Jewish-only memory served both outsiders and insiders

Evidence

It had been all-too-often sedimented in the public mind as a tragedy that occurred to the Jews and the Jews alone, and hence, as far as all the others were concerned, called for regret, commiseration, perhaps apology, but not much more than that. Time and again it had been narrated by Jews and non-Jews alike as a collective (and sole) property of the Jews, as something to be left to, or jealously guarded by, those who escaped the shooting and the gassing, and by the descendants of the shot and the gassed. In the end both views – the ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’ – complemented each other. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 18

Categorization

• XREF: The mechanism whereby both ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ views complementarily confine a catastrophe to one group’s memory parallels the construction of the ‘Other’ in the Islamophobia toolkit — a later negation of common humanity. — connects to: Manipulating Holocaust memory threatens the future’s human habitability — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 708

Related

• Manipulating Holocaust memory threatens the future’s human habitability (similarity 0.81)
• Exceptionalist Holocaust readings let the rest of the world off the hook. (similarity 0.80)
• Memory of past victimization is weaponized to legitimize new genocides (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Manipulating Holocaust memory threatens the future’s human habitability #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 708