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MEMORY AND REMEMBRANCE IN THE TIMES OF GLOBALIZATION. In the last twenty to twenty-five years, memory and remembrance have acquired an important position in the leading category of the humanities and natural science. Both the categories are particularly interesting within the framework of the studies relating to shoah. There are more and more projects, launched by the French historian Pierre Nora and dedicated to the so called lieux de memorie, locations of memory. A more detailed insight furthermore reveals that the series of works, confirming in this way or another the conjuncture of memory and remembrance, implies a latent concept of birth-as-death and death-as-birth . This subtext of primeval horror is especially likely to surface in times evoking birth, i.e. transition or break up . It is perceptible in many scientific texts (e.g. H. Arendt, P. Nora, H. K. Bhabha), with distinct psychological subtlety also in literary texts of authors that suffered as victims of fascist and Nazi violence (B. Pahor, F. Lipuš, D. Zajc among Slovenians). It is also reflected in the theories about the extinction of nation, coinciding with the fear of increasingly permeable borders . According to the author's main supposition, the popularity of memory and remembrance cannot be reduced to - the often traumatic - heritage of the past, manifestly and latently transmitted into the presence. This means it has to be treated also and above all as an inseparable part of the time, defined by the process of globalization. From the end of the 20th century on, shoah surpasses the synchronization of national cultures, and is becoming an important focal point of transnational European and non-European memory. Relating to D. Levy and N. Sznaider, it is possible to talk about globalization of the memory of shoah , which is increasingly becoming an emancipational project in the sense that it is favourable for people, not only for profit. Here, the conscious pushing of globalization in connection with ethics (less human rights violation) should be added, together with processes of inclusion (less of marginalization of people and states) and other concrete political and legal processes. However, it seems that many postsocialist states lag behind this standard, although they are expected to make up for it sooner or later, as they will not wish be behind general progress.