"Meminisse a memoria" – wrote the Roman scholar and writer of great erudition Marcus Terentius Varro in De lingua latina (6, 49),
defining the word meminisse as the ability to remember. The concepts of memory and oblivion are immutably associated with the function of the human mind, which can memorize, store, process and then reproduce everything that it experiences. The research on memory presented in this volume, however, is not only about the psychic’s ability or mental quality of the mind, but also about external factors, and thus all the socio-cultural conditions a"ecting the process of memorizing. The phenomenon of memory accompanies man from the dawn of history in various aspects, scopes, and on various levels, in the social (personal, individual),cultural or political dimensions. For about a century, the phenomenon of memory has remained the subject of scienti!c discussion, in which the German theory of social and collective memory has played a significant role.