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Podcast: Roger Frie, "Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust" (New Books Network)

February 01, 2018

What if you suddenly discovered a cherished member of your family was a Nazi? How would you make sense of the code of silence that had kept an uncomfortable reality at bay? How would you resolve the wartime suffering of your family with their moral culpability for the Holocaust?

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Education Professor Roger Frie explores the thorny issue of historical memory and intergenerational trauma in his new award winning book  (Oxford University Press, 2017). In an intensely personal confrontation with the Nazi past in his own family, Roger searches for ways to navigate historical traumas and reconcile the memory of his grandfather with the knowledge of his deeds.

Listen to the  (January 30, 2018) and learn more about Roger's book, courtesy of New Books Network.  

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