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All traumatic events establish a specific relationship with time. Among them, genocide provides a paradigm of extreme experience. Genocide is an event that escapes common time and establishes a new temporality for both victims and perpetrators. By analysing the oral and written testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, we can see that the temporality established by the genocide continues to reverberate in the lives of survivors whose families have been largely exterminated long after the massacres have ended.