The history of mankind is a history of wars and attempts at solutions, a story of victims and perpetrators, alleged losers and winners. The twentieth century was the radicalization of this history; the concentration camps in World War II were not only the struggle between peoples, between branches, between ideologies, but became the example of the brutality that men can reach, while the historical image of any attempt to steal freedom. We propose then a culture of memory, which involves the constant search for the “other” as one who suffers the consequences of history. The ethics of memory requires philosophy to not remain indifferent to the horror and death. The threat is the denial of “the other”, if the otherness dies, so does ethics, which will be an inevitable step to barbarism.