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The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention welcomes Susan Solomon and Am茅lie Mutarabayire-Schafer to screen their documentary, Apr猫s Coup which explores the persistence of trauma among adults who were victims of genocide in their childhood. The film focuses on the experiences of orphans from two genocides that occurred 50 years apart: the Holocaust in France and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda.

What do the orphans of these two genocides have to say to each other today? In November 2019, Susan Solomon and Am茅lie Mutarabayire-Schafer brought together three survivors of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda and three orphans of the 1942 deportation of Jews from France for a discussion. The dialogue, which took place around a table in a small room at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, is probably the first attempt of its kind.

Susan Solomon
Producer and co-Director

Professor emerita, University of Toronto. Born in Montreal, she attended a school in which half of the children came from families partially destroyed in the Holocaust. A historian of medicine, she works on the trauma of child victims of genocide. She wrote and codirected the documentary 鈥淚n Search of Roubakine,鈥� which was shown at the Solzhenitsyn Festival (2012).

Am茅lie Mutarabayire-Schafer
Co-Director

A psychotherapist, she lost the majority of her family in the genocide of the Tutsi. Founder of the association Subiruseke, which helps widows and orphans of genocide, she coordinated a program for M茅decins du Monde and Ibuka France to provide psychological support to survivors during the Gacaca trials. Director of 鈥淟es Dames de la Colline鈥� (2014) and co-author of 鈥淟鈥橝ppel de L鈥橧nanga 禄 (2023).

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Laura Hobson Faure
Discussant

Professor at the Panth茅on-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history and is a member of the Center for Social History (UMR 8058). Her research focuses on the intersections between French and American Jewish life during the 20th century.听 She is the author of听A 鈥淛ewish Marshall Plan鈥�: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France听(Armand Colin, 2013 in French; Indiana University Press, 2022) which won a National Jewish Book award and听Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who fled to France and America听(Yale University Press, 2025), a finalist for a National Jewish book award.

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Registration is required for those who wish to attend who are not part of the AUP community. Please note that registration will close on April 12th. Thank you.

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