This paper analyses how the memory of the Holocaust has been addressed in
the European Parliament from 1989 to 2009. I identify two major changes that
occurred in the 1990s and after the 2004 enlargement of the European Union
respectively. In the 1990s the war in Bosnia and the question of restitution
universalised the memory of the Holocaust and made it present. The 2004
enlargement brought the memory of Soviet Communism into the Union and
made it a central task to construct a community of memory that includes both
the memory of the Holocaust and of Soviet Communism. The analysis also
identifies what seems to be a political memory split between Left and Right;
and it shows that the time might not be ripe for a shared European memory.