How can we remember something that we cannot come to terms with? Are we living in a totalitarian or post-totalitarian society? Are there similarities between the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s and present-day society? Are the people living under totalitarian domination innocent or guilty? What is the banality of evil? What is the power of human rights? These are the questions Dirk De Schutter would like to discuss in this Holocaust Memorial Lecture.