Wounds of Silence

Roger Frie is University Professor of Psychoanalysis and Education at the University of Vienna, Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He also teaches at the William Alanson White Institute and the NYU Postdoctoral Program of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in New York. He is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst as well as a historian and social philosopher and author most recently of Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust (Oxford) and Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (Oxford).

• Introduction: Silencing and Responsibility Section I. The Holocaust in Germany: The Jewish Gardening School 1: Train to Riga 2: Demanding to Be Heard Section II. Indigenous Genocide in Canada: St. Mary's Indian Residential School 3: Ethnic Cleansing by Any Other Name 4: Enduring Trauma, Voicing Resilience Section III. The Legacy of Lynching in the United States: The Elaine Massacre 5: Stop Talking! 6: A Wound That Never Healed Section IV. Reckoning and Responsibility 7: Learning to Listen, Yielding to Pain 8: Answering History's Ethical Demand Coda: Roadmap for Remembering and Repair

Interviewed about the "online resource launched by German newspaper Die Zeit [to] discover whether relatives were card-carrying members of the Nazi party, Roger Frie, the author of Not in my Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust, says the tool has enormous importance. 'There's always been this focus on collective ... responsibility for the Holocaust, whilst at the same time, there has been a hesitation to research [one's] own family.' Prof. Frie, whose next book is about silencing dark histories, believes this initiative is particularly significant given the current political climate, with antisemitism on the rise, including on the far right in Germany. 'It suddenly shifts your perspective. It's no longer abstract, it's no longer back there.'