The representation and paratranslation of collective social trauma through art creates a direct contrast between the victims’ perspective, executioners and passive witnesses. The exhibition Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, presented at the Jewish Museum in New York in 2002, constitutes the main element of this paper’s analysis, facing us with the different faces of evil to the most extreme one: the possibility of trivializing the recent past. Questioning the limits of the representation and paratranslation of human condition happens to be the main aspect of an exhibition that aims to make spectators leave their comfort zone and deconstruct the idea of a unique moral and ethical way to approach sensitive topics. Through the extensive analysis of specialized bibliography, newspaper articles from those years, the exhibition’s catalogue and the artwork itself, we follow a theoretical path that leads us to interrogate ourselves about the meaning of the act of representation and the paratranslation applied to a controversial matter, where Nazism is seen as “a past that doesn’t pass.”