Holocaust memory and the horizon of national identity: Canada’s National Holocaust Monument (NHM) as a means for shaping Canadian identity
By Jason Chalmers In recent decades, ‘the Holocaust’ has become a free- floating symbolic signifier that can be applied to a variety of subjects regardless of their (dis)similarity to the Nazi persecution of European Jewry. This means that, while the ostensible purpose of Holocaust commemoration is to honour the dead, a community’s decision to remember the Holocaust is compelled by… Read more →