Reviews - Heimat: A German Family Album

Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug

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A journey of guilt and homesickness for a home you never really had. I found this work to be as engaging as it is beautiful. I loved the mixed media--illustrations, real photos, clippings, writings--to be very powerful, kind of like sifting through an old relative's desk drawers. There were many moments when I stopped and gasped at various things she found in her journey of familial discovery.

The story follows a German woman who begins investigating her family and what they did during WWII Germany. It's unflinching--some of her relatives were Nazis, and she looks at that fact head on. But it is also empathetic, in a way so few were to Germans in the years after the war.

It's a fascinating look at forgiveness after catastrophe, at guilt and at blame. It challenges you to do the hard thing and imagine others complexly. It's a delicate line to walk, this subject as a whole, but she does it beautifully. I'd recommend this book to everyone.

fudanshi's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

ptickrva's review against another edition

5.0

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paulinemaria's review against another edition

5.0

**This is another graphic novel in the collection at the school where I work**

This book has everything I love - grappling with a cloudy family history, heavy archival research, and extensive musing on German culture. I would not necessarily recommend to any of the students but will absolutely be recommending to teachers. Beautiful, painful, and an important lesson on how we remember as a collective and as individuals.