Since, as the historian Raul Hilberg already formulated, the Holocaust in Germany is part of the family history, the scrapbook and the encyclopedia coexist side by side in the home library. Family members have the shared task of matching the content of both stories, usually contradictory to each other, into a common story. This task is resolved, in most cases, by assigning parents and/or grandparents a role that exempts them from the characterization that appears in the encyclopedia. One of the means for this reconstruction of the past (along with many others) is the family conversation, in which historical images that make up all the members of the family are elaborated and fixed. The hypothesis that historical consciousness has two dimensions, one cognitive and the other emotional, is also supported by the fact that human memory operates with different systems for emotional and cognitive memories. This phenomenon becomes especially visible when we observe how those relatives belonging to the generation that lived through the era of National Socialism, and who claim to have "elaborated the past" and have a critical view of it, recount with great emotion the memories of "their time" and their experiences in the Hitler Youth or in the regime's air force (Luftwaffe). The naturalness with which the people who lived through that time immerse themselves and narrate those "good times" shows that the difference between historical knowledge, the result of significant emotional experiences, and the cognitive knowledge subsequently acquired, has great consequences in terms of the transmission of the past. In this way, it is also revealed that representations and stories about the National Socialist past circulate in the family environment that are different from those transmitted by the school and the media.