The holocaust is an event in world history and the history of our century. However, since Jews were the primary targets for Hitler's Final Solution and most survivors are Jews, the Holocaust is an event that took place within Jewish history. The traditional Jewish attitude toward trauma is therefore relevant to the way the Holocaust is remembered and commemorated. To what purpose should the Holocaust be remembered? For those whose lives were not directly touched by the Holocaust, the question can be reformulated: To what purpose should the Holocaust be brought into social awareness? It is relatively easy for a psychoanalyst studying the effect of the Holocaust on the second generation to discover the deleterious effects of denying, isolating, or repressing what children of survivors know about the Holocaust. We psychoanalysts usually take for granted that it is better to remember. The individual may wish to unburden himself by trying to forget, but the community, in this case the Jewish community, always exerts pressure in the direction of remembering.