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Recently, discourse on the memory is being formed in many areas including not only history but also philosophy, psychology, sociology, and literature etc. The memory is not the thing that never changes like documents, but it is positioning itself as another chapter of research on history in that it can fill up the gap of historical research which has been studied based on literature. This paper is focusing on considering the issues such as what meaning a survivor's memory can give to us rather than focusing on ‘history as reality’, and what value the memory has, and how historical trauma of individuals or groups can be cured based on those meanings and values. Thus, here, we developed our argument using the text Is this a man(Se questo è un uomo, 1945), which is a book written by a witness who survived the Auschwitz Nazi death camp. To achieve the goal of this article, first of all, we examined correlation between the memory and history. Although history and the memory may seem contrary to each other in a sense, they are of interdependence and complementary. In order for the relation between them to be productive, not stability and balance, but tense and check are necessary, and history should be approached from such a perspective. Only then, history and memory will be able to be partners for true history. Next, we have sought how to cure historical trauma seen from the perspective of the memory through the text to publish memories of a survivor's life full of ups and downs. Primo Levi does not bring cruelty of the harmer into excessive focus, but tried reflective overcoming to free himself from the shackles by objectifying traumatic memories directly confronting the past. In this sense, this research will give a possibility to newly restore trauma of memories forgotten in history and direction to seek how to cure trauma hidden behind memories.