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Both Leah Goldberg’s play Lady of the Castle (1954) and Shulamith Hareven’s short story The Witness (1980) illustrate the failure of the Israeli to come to terms with the horror of the Holocaust. The play presents the story of Lena, a Holocaust orphan, who is rescued by members of the Israeli Yishuv from a Castle where she was kept hidden away during the war. The conflict that emerges runs counter the popular myth of the Holocaust victim embracing the hope of a new future in the heroically idealistic Israeli. Shlomek, the protagonist of the story is an orphaned Holocaust refugee, who gets to Israel in 1940. The practically unanimous denial of the victim’s testimony isolates him in his new home. The possibility of a direct dialogue does not materialize in either of the texts. These literary representations of post-Holocaust Israeli reality reflect the need to resume the interrupted discourse between the diasporic past and the Israel present.