This article presents a face-to-face psychoanalytic therapy undertaken in several stages, separated by several years. Some of these periods took place within the then unusual framework of telephone sessions, justified by a traumatic après-coup, with several years of latency. It allowed a defensive hypermnesia, which made up for the silences and holes in the family history lastingly marked by the Shoah, to give way to a memory rediscovered in the appeasement which was finally possible.