ABSTRACT: The Holocaust – or the Shoah – is an inexhaustible theme and is present in several areas of knowledge. Among them, literature. It is intended, through the work Is this a man?, by Primo Levi, to raise questions about traumatic memory and witness narrative. To this end, from this work, we will rely on the theorists Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2003), Lejeune (2008), Paul Ricoeur (2007), Halbwachs (1990) and Pollak (1989) among others. So, the work Is this a man? it brings debates that still today lead the reader to make a critical reflection about one of the most terrible facts of humanity.