History and memory are represented through human attitudes and behaviors. The way history is shaped and represented impacts our response to past events, and memory is vital to this equation in order to fully understand history and appreciate the past. The representation of History and memory in Mark Baker's 'The Fiftieth Gate' (TFG) justifies the attitudes and behaviors of Yossl, Genia and Baker. We are made aware of this through the characters, literary techniques and structural framework in Baker's journey through memory and David Olere's painting "The Massacre of the Innocents" TFG is a non-fiction Bildungsroman, constructed from historical research , interviews and memories. Baker tells the stories of his parents who survived the Holocaust of World War II and the resettlement of many European Jews around the world, but particularly in Melbourne, Australia. Both of Baker's parents were persecuted as a result of the Holocaust but managed to survive. His father was detained in the death camps and in Auschwitz where 1.5 million people died. Baker's mother, however, was in Ukraine during the war, and her mother and sisters died at Treblinka, a death camp near Warsaw in Poland, where 750,000 people died. The representation of Genia and Yossl's history and memory in the TFG allows us to justify Baker's response to their story. The story is official documented evidence that takes on an impersonal tone. Looking only at the facts, Baker does not consider the emotions and suffering of memory when documenting and revealing his parents' traumatic past. "Dark, hiding in the closet... we hear the footsteps, the shots, the screams. [Genia] Not yet... first I need to know how it started. [Baker]" this describes Baker's dispassionate detachment.. .. .. middle of the sheet ......the lighter represents healing, while the darker one (towers, etc.) represents power and seriousness in general. Furthermore, the yellow and orange accent colors of the smoke and fire are the same as the skeletal color of the SS officers, suggesting that the destruction belongs to him and he belongs to the SS. In conclusion, these elements allow us to justify why Olere depicted his history and memory in this way as a response to the past event of the Holocaust. Ultimately, these texts represent similar ideas of Holocaust history and memory and how they allow us to gain awareness of human attitudes and behaviors. Overall, history is incomplete, impersonal, documented and linear, memory is fragmented, personal, emotional, physiologically retained and non-linear, and together they are the truth or mystery, the memory of death or the death of memory.