Philosopher Jeffrey Blustein presents a number of generalizations about the traumatic effects of exposure to genocide, drawing on the insights of leading trauma experts. Careful to note that these do not occur to the same extent in all victims, he examines some of the emotions and attitudes centrally involved in genocide victims’ experience of, and potential recovery from, trauma. His aim is to develop a basis for moral psychological thinking about the psychopathologic effects of genocide on its direct victims. Blustein argues that our ordinary experience is a poor guide to the emotions in and after mass atrocity. Further extending his own previous work on memory and forgiveness, the chapter also addresses some of the implications of trauma for thinking about mourning and collective practices of commemoration.