When I grow up : the lost autobiographies of six Yiddish teenagers
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New York : Bloomsbury, 2021.
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232 pages : color illustrations, 1 color map ; 23 cm
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury, 2021.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232).
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 forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them. In When I Grow Up, Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It's as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents' rediscovery. Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, and bursting with life, When I Grow Up reveals how the tragedy that is about to befall these young people could easily happen again, to any of us, if we don't learn to listen to the voices from the past.
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LC Subjects
Biographical comics.
Creative nonfiction.
Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Personal narratives.
Graphic novels.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe, Eastern -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Jewish youth -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography.
Jewish youth -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Lithuania -- History -- 20th century.
Jews, European -- Biography.
Jews, Lithuanian -- Biography.
Lithuania -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Personal narratives.
Nonfiction comics.
Personal narratives.
Creative nonfiction.
Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Personal narratives.
Graphic novels.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Europe, Eastern -- Personal narratives.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Personal narratives.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography.
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Jewish youth -- Europe, Eastern -- Biography.
Jewish youth -- Lithuania -- Biography.
Jews -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
Jews -- Lithuania -- History -- 20th century.
Jews, European -- Biography.
Jews, Lithuanian -- Biography.
Lithuania -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Personal narratives.
Nonfiction comics.
Personal narratives.
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