US Ambassador To Hungary: Important To Confront The Past
- 22 May 2015 9:00 AM
It is important to confront the past and process the painful periods of history, US Ambassador to Budapest Colleen Bell said at the launch of a publication on the Holocaust. Speaking at the event held at the Central European University to present The Future of Holocaust Memorialization: Confronting Racism, Antisemitism, and Homophobia through Memory Work, the ambassador said it is important to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive and debate what happened.
So many sad events took place in Hungary at that time, and yet it is common today to debate what exactly happened and who was involved in those events, she said.
CEU rector John Shattuck said the publication was based on lectures given at a 2014 conference organised on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust.
The aim of the conference was to review the events of the Holocaust and to debate what Holocaust education should look like, he said.
The conference also focused on how to respond to anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia, he added.
The publication discusses the role of Holocaust memorials in understanding the past as well as the effectiveness of Holocaust research methodology.
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