ABSTRACT
This chapter will explore aspects of postmemorial work which have extended beyond the translation, compilation and interpretation of family letters that belonged to victims of the Holocaust. It will show how the search for more information to fill up the gaps in the matrix of memory becomes, and remains, a Sisyphean endeavor governed by repetition compulsion. Working through a small collection of recently discovered postcards and personal notes, I will illustrate the uncanny aspects of the preoccupation with the past and some of its creative and hopeful outcomes.
