This article seeks to analyze how the amnesic abandon to which the Brazilian State and Society has relegated the collective memory could impact the school conviviality, by presenting a comparative study, based in bibliographical and documental survey. It searches to discuss the right to collective memory as a source of social transformation, particularly in school. Based in Habermas' discussion on the Memorial to the II World War and violent domination victims, in Berlin, it is presented themes about African-descendants' and indigenous peoples' discrimination, and Constitutional rights and guaranties as well. This article aims at to bringing subsidies sources, presenting contribution to the school everyday life, administration and public policies of education, to reflect about processes that have been marginalized in the social conscience and even so are so resistant, that return when and where one could less expect, as repressed contents.
Collective memory; Holocaust and education; national conscience; school conviviality