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A cartoonist reconstructs his father's survival of Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, in a graphic memoir that's also about the impossibility of telling the story at all.
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Grass
A biography-in-comics of Lee Ok-sun, a Korean woman trafficked as a teenager to a Japanese military comfort station in 1942 and the life she rebuilt after.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
Waltz with Bashir
A filmmaker reconstructs his buried memories of the 1982 Lebanon War.
Man's Search for Meaning
An Austrian psychiatrist's account of three years across four concentration camps and the logotherapy he built out of the observation that the prisoners who lived were the ones who had something still to mean.
Lilac Girls
Three women's lives converge on the Ravensbrück concentration camp: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite volunteering at the French consulate; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager sent there for her part in the resistance; and Herta Oberheuser, a young German doctor who takes a post there.
The Property
An Israeli woman and her grandmother travel to Warsaw to reclaim a family apartment and discover that the property, and the grandmother, were more than they looked.
The Diary of a Young Girl
Two years of entries by a Jewish teenage girl hiding with her family above an Amsterdam warehouse, from her thirteenth birthday in 1942 until the Gestapo found the annex in 1944.
Fatelessness
György Köves, a fourteen-year-old Budapest Jew, is taken off a bus in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald, and tells it all in a flat, almost uncomprehending voice.
Dora Bruder
Modiano comes across a notice in a December 1941 newspaper asking for news of a missing fifteen-year-old Jewish girl in Paris, and spends years trying to trace her.
And Where Were You, Adam?
Linked episodes of the German retreat from Romania and Hungary in 1944, following a soldier, Feinhals, among men who no longer believe in anything.
March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
Feeding Ghosts
An American artist draws three generations of her Chinese-American family through mental illness, the Cultural Revolution, and a long, prickly inheritance.