Lanzmann remarks on a "touching little museum" that has been built at Sobibor, but says: "Museums and monuments institute oblivion as much as remembrance".
"Museums and monuments," Mr. Lanzmann argues in a director's note that appears on screen at the start of the film, "institute oblivion as much as remembrance".
Other boycotters include the main claimants to the Russian throne, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and her 17-year-old son, Georgy, who will spend the day at the patriarch's much grander remembrance service for the imperial family near Moscow.
It's as if there's only so much observance of remembrance that anyone can take.
And a somewhat embarrassed city began to realize in Frazier's death what it had not during his life — that he was a flesh-and-blood heavyweight champion who deserved as much respect and remembrance as the celluloid hero named Rocky, who has come instead to embody Philadelphia's image of itself as a gritty, blue-collar place that favors effort over élan.
But it was Mr. Lipton, an original member of Easy Company, and Richard Winters, one of its former commanders, who supplied much of the remembrances for "Band of Brothers".
And why, asked Matthew, who is usually late, did postponement, so essential to every Proustian sentence, have so much in common with remembrance?
He presents Hartman as he was, without diminishing or sanitizing him, giving the world a more nuanced remembrance than much of what's been published about him since 1998.
And they don't come much more serious than Remembrance of Things Past: Combray (NBM, £10.50, pp72), the first in a projected 12-volume adaptation of Marcel Proust's epic.
