In his extraordinary award-winning book, "Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust," author Roger Frie confronts an unspoken Nazi history in his German family. With remarkable courage, he seeks to transform his family narrative into an understanding of the Holocaust's forbidding reality.

At this free talk & book signing at Banyen Books, Roger Frie will talk about his discovery, and confrontation with, the unspoken Nazi past in his German family. Frie will examine what was involved in transforming familiar stories into an informed understanding of the Nazi past and responsibility for the Holocaust. He will talk about the struggle of memory in his own German family and society to emphasize the moral obligations of remembering and the need to respond to the social injustices that surrounded us.

Awards:
• 2018 Western Canada Jewish Book Award (for Holocaust literature)
• 2017 Canadian Jewish Literary Award (for history)

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.