Am 31. Mai offiziell erschienen: Die englische Ausgabe der Anthologie “BUT I LIVE – Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust”. Graphic Stories von Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar und Barbara Yelin, im Dialog mit den Holocaust-Überlebenden David Schaffer, Nico und Rolf Kamp und Emmie Arbel, herausgegeben von Charlotte Schallié. Begleitet werden die 3 Geschichten von Essays von den Überlebenden und begleitenden Aufsätzen von Historiker*innen, die auch bei der Entstehung der Comics eingebunden waren. Danke an University of Toronto Press, in deren Imprint New Jewish Press dieses Buch erscheint.
Hardcover, 200 Seiten, davon sind 132 Seiten die Graphic Narratives.
Die Beschreibung des Verlages:
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 Ravensbrück 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 Liveaims to teach new generations about racism, antisemitism, human rights, and social justice.