Ten essays examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke the 'deathscape' and the 'hopescape' of the Holocaust. The chapters probe the impacts that site visits, memoirs, survivor testimonies, psychological studies, literature and art have on responses to the atrocities committed during World War II. Also considered are the misunderstandings caused by erroneous, embellished and sentimental accounts of the catastrophe. Some reasons why they continue to enter public and printed discourse are looked at.