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Our models of witnessing the Holocaust have overemphasized the dead mother of genocide, with a resultant collapse of hope about the future of atrocity. The author argues for a more paradoxical, dynamic, intersubjective model that would recognize the dialogue between the living and dead mothers of genocide. This model would permit some hope without negating the grief and despair of survival. Further, by restoring the “maternal subjectivity” of the witness, by offering maternal containment to the witness, psychoanalysts can expand our collective I–Thou capacity. We will become more able to know “our” atrocity, as well as the atrocity of the Other.