Memoria [EN] No. 3 / December 2017 | Page 38

The moral responsibility of memory: a reflection on a visit to Krakow

In his Nobel Lecture, Elie Wiesel wrote this: ‘without memory, our existence would be barren and opaque, like a prison cell into which no light penetrates, like a tomb which rejects the living […]

It is memory that will save humanity. For me, hope without memory is like memory without hope.’

Rob Thompson