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
Summary
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