Après Coup Afterwards
A film by Susan Solomon and Amélie Mutarabayire-Schafer
AFTERWARDS explores the persistence of trauma among adults who have been child victims of genocide. It focuses on the experiences of orphans of two genocides, separated from one another by fifty years: the Holocaust in France and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. What might the orphans of these genocides have to say to each other today?
Susan Solomon, the film's co-Director and Producer, is 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 InSearchofRoubakine, which was shown at the Solzhenitsyn Festival (2012).
Laura Hobson Faure is a professor of history at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University-Paris 1, where she holds the chair of Modern Jewish history. She is the author of A “Jewish Marshall Plan”: the American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France (in French, Armand Colin, 2013; Indiana University Press, 2022) and Rescue:TheStoryofKindertransporttoFranceandAmerica (Yale University Press, 2025)
Thursday, April 3, 2025 • 11:20 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Presented by the Hofstra Cultural Center and the Department of History
Co-sponsored by the European Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program Department of Religion, Africana Studies Program, Center for Civic Engagement, Stuart and Nancy Rabinowitz Honors College and the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advance registration is required. To RSVP, visit events.hofstra.edu. For more information, call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516- 463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/culture