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The article describes four different versions of the definition of the term "Holocaust Trauma." With the first, the author defines the actual clinical and epidemiological understanding of trauma, while the second version refers to the clinical construction of the Holocaust trauma before the historical definition of it. The third version explains how people born after the holocaust can be viewed as participants in the trauma, and in the fourth version the Holocaust trauma is understood as a historical and clinical medium through which communities discover their origin and identity. Referred to in the article are the writings of psychiatrists Elmer Luchterhand and William G. Niederland and author Shoshana Felman, who reported on the Nazi war crime trial of National Socialist Adolf Eichmann.