Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust (Explorations in Narrative Psychology)

Synopsis

Roger Frie Explores What It Means To Discover His Family's Legacy Of A Nazi Past. Using The Narrative Of His Grandfather As A Starting Point, He Shows How The Transfer Of Memory From One German Generation To The Next Keeps The Forbidding Reality Of The Holocaust At Bay. Foreword / By Anna Ornstein, Md -- Refuge Or Exile? : Searching For A New Home -- Confronting The Legacy Of My Grandparents -- Shaped By History, Caught By Language -- Whose Suffering? : Narratives Of Trauma -- Living With The Nazi Past -- Knowing And Not Knowing -- Breaking The Silence -- Coda: Finding My Grandfather. Roger Frie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.