A testament to what's necessary to survive... Ginette’s personality provides a stamp of authentication to appalling events. How can some people so easily shed their humanity?
The Slings and Arrows Graphic Novel Guide
It is April 1944. 19-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives. It is October 2020. 95-year-old Ginette takes advantage of a lull in the COVID-19 epidemic to accompany a group visiting Birkenau one last time. As a farewell, she brings with her a journalist (France Info’s Victor Matet) and a comic strip writer, J-D Morvan. From this trip a comic book is born. Ginette tells of her life before the war, how she discovered she was Jewish, how her family fled Paris before she and her father were denounced. She tells the story of the camp; completely, honestly, without seeking pity. We see her today, how she still shares her story with the world, how she still stands and bears witness. Ginette tells everything with her trademark liveliness and biting humor. We often laugh, and sometimes we shudder. Because the story she tells is ours too.
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The graphic memoir of Ginette Kolinka, Holocaust survivor, educator, and “ambassador for the memory” of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
A testament to what's necessary to survive... Ginette’s personality provides a stamp of authentication to appalling events. How can some people so easily shed their humanity?
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781914224232
Publisert
2024-10-24
Utgiver
Vendor
SelfMadeHero
Vekt
271 gr
Høyde
190 mm
Bredde
260 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
112