Experiences of political violence shape the political identities of victims and their descendants. But not all such experiences have the same lasting intergenerational effects. In this talk, Noam Lupu offers a novel argument about what kinds of experiences of violence do and do not cause lasting intergenerational trauma for their victims, focusing particularly on the role played by blame-attribution and ethnic targeting in Crimea, Cambodia, and Guatemala, looking as well survey data from two cross-national projects on conflict experiences.