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


• 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.