The social construction of civic holidays. Discussion about Shoah Remembrance Day

In 2005, European Union designate 27 January as an annual day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, date of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. This paper explores the process of construction of Shoah memorial and examine the ceremonies in five countries (Germany, Poland, Spain, USA and Israel. This reflection interrogates about the opportunity of the event: How to learn about the Holocaust today? Is therehore necessary to learn how to dissect the mechanisms of genocide to prevent it from occurring again the future? In the last, there is analyzed the function of the graphical press as potential agent for to show or to silence the magnitude and trascendence of this historical process.