devoir de mémoire

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French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /də.vwaʁ də me.mwaʁ/

Noun[edit]

devoir de mémoire m (plural devoirs de mémoire)

  1. duty of remembrance, duty never to forget, obligation to remember

Usage notes[edit]

Used to say remembering the Holocaust is a moral imperative.