History and memory are represented through human attitudes and behaviors. How history is shaped and represented impacts our response to past events and memory. It is essential to this equation in order to fully understand history and appreciate the past. The representation of History and memory in “The Fifth Door” (TFG) by Mark Baker justifies the attitudes and behaviors of Yossl, Genia and Baker. We are aware of this through the characters, literary techniques and structural framework of the 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 most notably in Melbourne, Australia. Both of Baker's parents were prosecuted following the Holocaust, but were able to survive. His father was held in death camps and was at Auschwitz where 1.5 million people died. The baker's mother, however, was in Ukraine during the war and his mother and sisters perished 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 TFG helps 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 fails to consider the emotions and pain of memory when documenting and revealing his parents' traumatic past. "Dark, hidden in the closet... we hear the footsteps, the gunshots, the screams. [Genia] Not yet... I need to hear how it started first. [Baker]" this depicts Baker's impartiality... ... middle of paper ...... the lighter one represents healing, while the darker one (towers, etc.) represents power as well as seriousness in general. Additionally the yellow and orange accent colors of the smoke and fire are the same as the color of the skeleton of the SS officers suggesting that the destruction belongs to him and that he belongs to the SS. In conclusion, these elements help to justify why Olère depicted his story. and memory in this way as a response to the past event of the holocaust. Ultimately, these texts represent similar ideas about the history and memory of the Holocaust and how they enable us to become aware of human attitudes and behaviors. Overall, history is incomplete, impersonal, documented and linear, memory is fragmented, personal, emotional, physiologically preserved and non-linear and together they constitute truth or mystery, memory of death or death of memory..