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In the policy of genocide, all children had to be eliminated. This was critical. Having herself lived through this “strange defeat”,—defeat of rights, of the law, defeat of civilization, defeat of parents in spite of themselves—the author tries to express how a psychoanalyst can read and hear about what occurred to these children on a psychical level. They experienced extreme loneliness and secrecy, and some infantile amnesia. Symptoms came back when, little by little, they were allowed to speak in society. When treating these patients, psychoanalysts had to imaginarily retrace this journey pierced by the Real so long as they themselves had also accepted to face collective events that made a total break with the past.