In the aftermath of the Jewish Holocaust, a wave of eyewitness accounts, both from survivors and perpetrators, surfaced as historical evidence. For many, it determined what modern popular culture remembers about this atrocious event. Emotion obviously plays a vital role in survivors' stories, but can it be taken into account when discussing the historical significance of the murder of six million European Jews by the Third Reich? Emotion is the expression of thoughts and beliefs affected by an individual's feelings and sensitivity regarding a given event or individual. When it comes to the Holocaust, emotion is overwhelmingly prominent in survivors' accounts of their experiences, conveyed in terms of life, death, and survival. As scholars often point out, the Holocaust arouses strong feelings, transmits and reinforces fundamental societal values. Through close observation of various forms of media sources, this article will argue that emotion and its absence, as a repercussion of the Holocaust, through the testimonies of those who survived its trials and tribulations, played a enormous role in historical determination. knowledge of the genocide. In analyzing the stories that concentration camp survivors and their perpetrators have presented as historical evidence supporting the researchers' conclusions, one must ask the question: Where do the facts end and the subject's emotional distortion begin? It is essential to approach this issue with great caution, to note that not all historical accounts of the Holocaust written by survivors and perpetrators are fraught with emotion and a multi-layered interpretation of the event. In his acclaimed article “Memory, distortion and history in the middle of paper ......e Museum”. History and Theory, Volume 36, Number 4, Thematic Issue 36. December 19978. Greenspan, Henry. Listening to Holocaust Survivors. Westport, Connecticut. Praeger Publishers. 1998.9. Kramer, Stanley. Judgment at Nuremberg. 1961.10. Levi, Primo. Surviving Auschwitz. New York, touchstone of New York. 1996.11. Lewy, Gunter. The Nazi persecution of Gypsies. Oxford, England. Oxford University Press. 2000.12. Spielberg, Steven. Holocaust survivors. 1996.13. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/learn14. Wiesel, Elie. Night. The United States of America. Bantam Publishing Group. 1958.15. Wyszogrod, Morris. A brush with death. Albany, State University of New York Press. 1999.16. Young, James. “Towards a Received History of the Holocaust.” History and theory, volume 36, number 4, thematic number 36. December 1997.