The ‘Righteous’ as an Element of Transnational Memory Politics: The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust and the Memory of the Rescue of Jews during the Second World War

In the last two decades, topic of help given to Jews during Second World War has experienced an extraordinary boom in Europe and beyond. Transnational intergovernmental organisations such as Council Europe, European Parliament International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) have played essential role promoting this subject. This paper shows that first big event introduce category Righteous into transnational memory politics was Stockholm Forum on (2000). Researchers described conference a significant step toward ‘institutionalisation memory’ self-critical, victim-centred, future-oriented highly personalised remembrance. I argue it precisely universalisation notion wide-ranging implication societies genocide, which paved way for rescue narratives. However, demonstrates, participants defined differently invoked them divergent purposes.