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An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four
Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated
stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after
the Holocaust. David Schaffer and his family survived in Romania
due to their refusal to obey Nazi collaborators. In the
Netherlands, brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp were separated from their
parents and hidden by the Dutch resistance in thirteen different
places. Through the story of Emmie Arbel, a child survivor of the
Ravensbruck and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, we see the
lifelong trauma inflicted by the Holocaust. To complement these
hauntingly beautiful and unforgettable visual stories, But I Live
includes historical essays, an illustrated postscript from the
artists, and personal words from each of the survivors. As we
urgently approach the post-witness era without living survivors of
the Holocaust, these illustrated stories act as a physical
embodiment of memory and help to create a new archive for future
readers. By turning these testimonies into graphic novels, But I
Live aims to teach new generations about racism, antisemitism,
human rights, and social justice.
In the mid-1930s, lrmina, an ambitious young German, moves to
London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the
first Black students at Oxford, who, like lrmina, is working
towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes
to an abrupt end when lrmina, constrained by the political
situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war
approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear
to lrmina that prosperity will only be possible through the
betrayal of her ideals. In the award-winning /RM/NA, Barbara Yelin
presents a troubling drama about the tension between integrity and
social advancement. Based on a true story, this moving and
perceptive graphic novel perfectly conjures the oppressive
atmosphere of wartime Germany, reflecting on the complicity that
results from the choice, conscious or otherwise, to look away.
Gerda stands at the window of her nursing home, looking up at the
stars. A simple question has been haunting her for years, but until
now she’s managed to avoid it: has her life been a happy one? As
Gerda negotiates the degradations of old age and the indignity of
being cared for by strangers, the past begins to seep into the
present. Memories sweep over her. She remembers her life as a
bespectacled schoolgirl, bullied for being smart. She remembers her
ambition to enter the closed and overwhelmingly male field of
astrophysics. And she remembers, most powerfully, that one summer
– the summer of her life – during which she would be forced to
make the most difficult decision of all: between her career and the
love of her life. The Summer of Her Life is a poetic, touching and
profound graphic novel that grapples with questions that are too
often left unasked. What is it like to spend your twilight years in
a home? How do you know whether you’ve made the right choices?
And what does it mean, in the end, to be happy?
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