Based on interviews with survivors, these six comics show the journeys six children went on through Nazi Europe.
What an amazing, horrifying story. It's hard to really say I enjoyed it, simply because of the subject matter. But it's beautifully made, accurate even when other artists might soften details, and heartrending.
It's terrifying how, even though the people in this stories came from different countries and different social levels, their stories are almost the same. Nazi hate knew no boundaries.
In these times, it's really important that we don't forget these awful lessons. I know I won't be forgetting this book for a long time.
The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers.
Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost—and how you keep on living, despite it all.
Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor’s stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting’s art makes the book accessible, despite its difficult subject.
Using first-person point of view allows the stories to get under your skin as survivors describe their persecutions in the Ghetto, the de-humanization and the starvation in the concentration camps, and the industrial-scale mass murder taking place in the extermination camps.
When right-wing extremism and antisemitism are being evoked once again, it’s the alarm-bell needed to remind us never to forget the horrors of the Holocaust.
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