ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book provides a foundation for an increased understanding of young people who have been affected by extreme traumatizing processes. Two different tendencies, trauma linking and generational linking, respectively, can dominate at different stages for each individual. Life stories recounted by survivors who were children during the Holocaust and during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 have constituted the core of psychological research. Past traumatic experiences are recovered not as memories in the usual sense of the word, but as affects invading the present. Accordingly, affects seem to tell the story of the past traumatic experiences. The book aims to find a generality in the phenomena that arise when children are subjected to massive trauma. It talks about children in genocide: to find indicators for, and to analyse, psychological phenomena that emerged in the life stories.
