H-Net Review: Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance

Review of Memory and Complicity: Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance by Debarati Sanyal. ew York Fordham University Press, 2015. Reviewed by Brenda D. Melendy (Texas A&M University-Kingsville) [Published on H-German September, 2016] Memory and Complicity_ provokes the reader to explore overlapping layers of historical memory, to recognize conversations between writers of the twentieth-century French canon and its aspirants, and to acknowledge all forms of complicity across the generations. Sanyal leads us through a timeline incorporating the Nazi occupation of France and the collaboration of Vichy France; the French-Algerian War and its longer-term aftermath; and late twentieth-century/early twenty-first-century global terror.