PRE-FEST EVENT - ROGER FRIE - Edge of Catastrophe

IN HONOUR OF INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

ROGER FRIE / Edge of Catastrophe – Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust
In Conversation

Erich Fromm, the prominent 20th-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness.
In Edge of Catastrophe, Roger Frie introduces for the first time the unpublished Holocaust correspondence in Fromm’s family. The letters provide insight into Fromm’s life as a German-Jewish refugee and help us to understand the effect of Nazi Germany’s racial terror on Fromm and his German-Jewish family. In the aftermath of the genocide, Fromm returned again and again to the themes of responsibility, social justice, and human solidarity. As this book powerfully shows, Fromm’s social, political, and psychological writings take on new meaning in light of the traumas and tragedies that he and his family experienced.
ROGER FRIE is Professor of Education at SFU and Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at UBC. He is also a historian and social philosopher. Frie is the author of the WCJB Award-winning book Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility After the Holocaust.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VANCOUVER HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTRE