Abstract

Remembrance is a basic skill which forms and shapes the identity of a human being significantly. Remembering is the base of cultural life and, at the same time, is an individual and a collective force which shall not be conceived independently. In the German-speaking area, the term erinnern is commonly used in public in the context of a common remembering of historical events, specifically of the Holocaust, but we can spot three dimensions of the culture of remembrance in a hardly comprehensible and understandable area of memory studies: the material, the social, and the mental dimension. Today, the national and ethnocentric cultures of remembrance gain serious competition in the course of Europeanization and globalization that could lead to equalization and manipulation of remembrance. “Remembrance of the suffering of others” from an ethical perspective can be considered a benchmark for democratic and global exchange of cultures of remembrance.