Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

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Roger Frie (Professor of Education, Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University)

Not in My Family

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German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

Roger Frie (Professor of Education, Professor of Education, Simon Fraser University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
12 October 2017

Psychological theory & schools of thought; Social, group or collective psychology; Memory; Fascism & Nazism

Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology

Winner of the 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book AwardWinner of the 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary AwardEven as the Holocaust grows more distant with the passing of time, its traumas call out to be known and understood. What is remembered, what has been imparted through German heritage, and what has been forgotten? Can familiar family stories be transformed into an understanding of the Holocaust's forbidding reality? Author Roger Frie is uniquely positioned to answer these questions. As the son of Germans who were children during World War II, and with grandparents who were participants in the War, he uses the history of his family as a guide to explore the psychological and moral implications of memory against the backdrop of one of humanity's darkest periods. From his perspective of a life lived across German and Jewish contexts, Frie explores what it means to discover the legacy of a Nazi past. Beginning with the narrative of his grandfather, he shows how the transfer of memory from one German generation to the next keeps the Holocaust at bay. Not in My Family is rich with poignant illustration: Frie beautifully combines his own story with the stories of others, perpetrators and survivors, and the generations that came after. As a practicing psychotherapist he also draws on his own experience of working with patients whose lives have been directly and indirectly shaped by the Holocaust. Throughout, Frie proceeds with a level of frankness and honesty that invites readers to reflect on their own histories and to understand the lasting effects of historical traumas into the present.

By: Roger Frie (Professor of Education Professor of Education Simon Fraser University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780199372553
ISBN 10: 0199372551
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 12 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Anna Ornstein, MD Preface Introduction: Limits of Understanding Chapter 1: Refuge or Exile? Searching for a New Home Chapter 2: Confronting the Legacy of my Grandparents Chapter 3: Shaped by History, Caught by Language Chapter 4: Whose Suffering? Narratives of Trauma Chapter 5: Living with the Nazi Past Chapter 6: Knowing and Not Knowing Chapter 7: Breaking the Silence Coda: Finding my Grandfather

Roger Frie is a psychologist and philosopher educated in London and Cambridge. He is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Psychoanalytic Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology in New York.

Reviews for Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust

[Frie] could have lived with the myth, accepted by the majority of the German population today, that the planners and the executors of the Holocaust were properly punished for their crimes in Nurnberg and that there was no reason for subsequent generations of Germans to feel guilty for their forbearers' crimes. The honesty with which he describes the guilt and shame he continues to feel is not idle self-indulgence but the strong and well-reasoned voice of a philosopher-psychoanalyst inviting his fellow Germans to recognize the moral dimensions that remembering the Holocaust has for his and for future German generations. From the Forward, written by Anna Ornstein, a survivor of Auschwitz