Ken Krimstein
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Compassionate and enlightening, ... a portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and 'virulent truth telling' led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition. Her experience remains an inspiring example of how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust...