Sixty years have elapsed since the end of World War 11, so the Holocaust is now less of a burning issue than it once was. Nevertheless its ashes smoulder in history and memory. A continual stream of publications and media productions attest to continuing concern with this catastrophic event, its shattering impact on people’s lives and beliefs, and the disturbing questions it raises. For many intellectuals it represents the collapse of the whole European Enlightenment project, with its beliefs in progress, justice and freedom for all people; and casts serious doubts on the value and virtue of modernity, because science, technology and bureaucratic efficiency – highly valued aspects of modernity – were used in the service of immoral ends - to implement genocide. The Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe, has come to symbolize man’s inhumanity to man, and has provoked much discussion and debate on the issues of racism and anti-semitism, religious intolerance, ultra-nationalism and totalitarianism, as well as the danger of divorcing scientific progress from moral and humanitarian concerns.