Theme 5: Memory Matters

How societies remember atrocities shapes whether they recur. Holocaust memory has been preserved through museums, education, and ongoing public commemoration. The Armenian Genocide has been partially preserved through diaspora advocacy but denied by Turkey. Cambodian memory has been preserved partly through the Killing Fields memorial and the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Rwandan memory is

built into the country's annual genocide commemoration. The failure of memory (as Hitler reportedly noted regarding the Armenians) creates conditions for repetition.