Official Memory: What´s Cultural Memory?

Cultural Memory: Quickly glancing at “memory” it seems to be something passive, something that is stuck in the past and will not physically reappear. It is something that has happened and is stuck in time, along with people, places, smells and etc. If you take a closer look at “memory though, it reveals that it is dynamic and connects all intellectual and emotional dimensions together. Cultural memory is symbolic. It is a memory that is passed from one person or one generation to the next. It is the heritage embodied within texts, memorials, celebrations, scriptures and other media that serve as a trigger to initiate a meaning, which is linked to something that has happened. Cultural Memory brings back the time of the imaginary happenings,
Official Memory is what people have seen and lived, it is the experience that each individual goes through and how he or she remembers their pasts. I think one tries to normalize their past to have an official memory. A person has their memory, but also takes everyone else’s memories of a certain point in time and combines it to make their own official memory. I do not think that official memory is 100 percent an accurate description, or recollection of a point in time. Official memory is part of collective memory and personal memory, but is the most logical understanding of both. I don’t think there needs to be a 100 percent accurate description of a memory or a past. I think that all various phases and memories that people put together will still have an impact on our society and will without a doubt still influence our world to appreciate our
Sonja was a strong-headed girl who got really involved in her obsession of finding out her towns secrets. She was so deeply involved that she risked her family’s safety to uncover these atrocities.
Sonja who represents a younger generation of Germans has grown uncomfortable with the secrets about German role of responsibility and guilt for the crimes of the Nazi era. Sonja who earnestly worked upon the past rather than quickly working through the past is not complicit in the atrocities committed. Sonja is a figure that realizes that her generation needs to be ok with what has happened in the past and move forward knowing the past is the past and it should stay there.
The film “The nasty girl” challenges the viewer’s opinion toward their difficult, painful past, and urges them to remember the need to confront the horrors of the Holocaust. Through viewing this film the view gains a better understanding of working upon the past through Sonja’s digging through her towns