Seventy years after Auschwitz’s liberation Holocaust memory is simultaneously more global and strictly European. This double panel aims to focus on how and why – especially some underprivileged - groups feel excluded from, exclude themselves, or get excluded from Holocaust memory work, even though Holocaust memory unquestionably established itself as the paradigmatic story of injustice, racism, and human rights violations in Europe and elsewhere.

Individual presentations that focus on the Muslim, Roma and Sinti, Black, Palestinian Jewish and Polish engagements with Holocaust memory and Holocaust memorials in Europe and beyond.  They will also address the mechanisms by which certain groups are deem active bearers of memory and how they are related to changes in the European landscape due to shifting borders and migration. We will observe both dominant Holocaust memory narratives and marginal ones and explores the possibilities – or their lack thereof – of groups to engage with this narrative when they are not considered among the perpetrators, hence indigenous Europeans.  We divided the panel according to papers that focus on (1) mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion and (2) citizenship, nationalism and multiculturalism,

The double panel tries to understand the complexity of exclusive dynamics in contemporary practices of Holocaust remembrance narratives, actions and policies at the face of its globalizing spread to countries outside of Europe.