Why the holocaust MUST be remembered | Sabine Beppler-Spahl | Academy 2024

Primo Levi is the modern conscience of Europe. Yet our culture
warriors downgrade his searing witness to Auschwitz into just
another lesson in victimhood or, worse, try and downplay the
significance of the holocaust into one of many.


This lecture we restores Levi’s grim brilliance – and expose
today’s relativists who would rather talk about “systems” than
evil.


Topics Covered


• Why Levi, aged 25, wrote If This Is a Man at break-neck speed –
he feared we’d forget • Auschwitz as a laboratory in total
domination – Hannah Arendt’s warning brought to life • Greek,
Italian and French solidarity versus German barbarism – a
civilisation stress-test • How post-war publishers mangled the
title into Survival in Auschwitz – and why that ruins the point •
The poverty of modern Holocaust education – classrooms that churn
out relativist drivel • What is lost when we treat genocide as
just another case study in “trauma studies”


 


️ Quote to remember “Consider if this is a man… carve it in your
hearts.” – Levi turns the Shema into a moral bayonet.


 


Takeaway This talk is not a weepy exercise in guilt-mongering. It
is a defence of civilisation – and a challenge to those who
prefer moral fog to moral clarity.