Symposium
The Legacy of 20th-Century Catastrophes -
2 May 2020
online
You Tell Us Stories. Why?
Never again Auschwitz: that was the thought after the horrors of the Shoah became public knowledge. But the Gulag was still there. In Rwanda and Srebrenica, the horror of genocide returned. And now, still, people are displaced, locked into camps or murdered because of their ethnicity, political beliefs or faith. Have we learned nothing from all the moving stories and witness accounts? What is the value of remembering and commemoration? What will our future look like if we forget the lessons of the past?
Watch the stories of Marian Turski and Jacqueline Murekatete on our YouTube channel.
Speakers

Poland, 1926
Marian Turski
Holocaust survivor, historian and founder POLIN Museum

Rwanda, 1984
Jacqueline Murekatete
survivor Rwandan genocide and founder Genocide Survivors Foundation

United States, 1964
Anne Applebaum
historian and author Gulag: A History

United States, 1952
David Rieff
journalist and author of In Praise of Forgetting

France, 1974
Géraldine Schwarz
journalist and author of Those Who Forget

USA, 1952
Leon Wieseltier
Jewish-American public intellectual and author Kaddish
Published in
Journal Nexus
2020
Nexus 84
Een spiegel voor onze tijd
Een spiegel voor onze tijd
Dutch publication with a.o. Marian Turski, Jacqueline Murekatete and David Rieff
Journal Nexus
2020
Nexus 84
Een spiegel voor onze tijd
Een spiegel voor onze tijd
Dutch publication with a.o. Marian Turski, Jacqueline Murekatete and David Rieff