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The book [...] recounts the result of meetings of researchers from the universities of Hamburg, Warsaw, Poznań and the Polish Academy of Sciences, during which an important and difficult matter was formed in discussion, touching on the 'historicisation' of what is remembered. Or, more precisely, the remembering of the Holocaust in two, strongly intertwined types of representation. That is, in the memorial realisations organised around a post-catastrophic discourse; in monuments, museums, witnesses (their "monumental" role), also in literature, art, film - and also in specific derealisations of memory, i.e. in memorial representations that, by showing something, erase something else (or the same thing), suppress, redefine, reorganise and - in essence - perform an anaesthesia/amnesia procedure. The dormancy of a primordial memory, its u-essentialisation. And the definitionally apt title, linking sites of memory and sites of non-remembrance (something different from the non-places of Marc Augé), points to the various historical practices of remembering/non-memory and to the whole sphere of such practices and rituals wrapped around the disturbance of memory, motivated in various ways, psychosocially (denial, feelings of guilt) and historically (the so-called competition of memories), and religiously ("competition" of martyrology), but always important and always far from political innocence. (Prof. Andrzej Zieniewicz)

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