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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, War, Deportation
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So incredibly well done. The visuals, the research, the storytelling... what a huge amount of work it must have been.
I loved the art style and mixed media throughout the book. Didn't expect to relate to so much of it, but it was actually kind of healing to see someone else struggle to understand the loss of a relative that no one talks about or deals with in a healthy way.
The art work is stunning! I really like the pastiche and scrap-booky way the author has used for her graphic memoir. However, the charm ends there - I could NOT read any more of her whinnying about her heritage. Some of the sentences like - “even marrying a Jewish man hasn’t lessened my German shame” or “my Jewish friends often tell me what Americans did to Indigenous tribes was equal or far worse”. Are you seriously comparing which genocide is better than the other? I couldn’t stomach how insensitive the author sounded at times; using “Jewish” people as a way to show how Germans have become better? And honestly, I can’t care any less about how she feels when people judge her for being a ‘German’ due to her country’s past and how she feels so self-conscious and insecure about it.
Something about the whole book rubbed me the wrong way. At one point the author mentions reading about the concentration camps in her school, and says “ But there were gaps in our education. We didn’t learn about the thousands of Germans that had been killed for resisting the Nazi Regime.”
Something about the whole book rubbed me the wrong way. At one point the author mentions reading about the concentration camps in her school, and says “ But there were gaps in our education. We didn’t learn about the thousands of Germans that had been killed for resisting the Nazi Regime.”
This was very enjoyable, especially the artistic style of the graphic novel really had me - I usually am very sceptical regarding GN and always struggle to get into it. it's inspiring to look back at own family histories and reminds of the urge to be aware of what happened in Germany before, during and after ww II, also reflecting the current political situation.
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Fascinating dig into history though the author's research into her family's own WWII past. I loved the graphic novel format for this book--really brought both her journey and the details she uncovers to life.