When a psychotic level of experience like the Holocaust is enacted, the resulting trauma lacks the associative network that characterizes normal memories. It creates instead a “black hole.” Destruction of the relationship to a “mother” is at the heart of that void and is responsible for the unrepresentability of massive trauma. This destruction is a primal scene equivalent. Children of survivors weave fantasies from parents' posttraumatic screens and their own developmental conflicts. The primal scene is a model for the manner in which these children take possession of forbidden, traumatic knowledge.