Guest Post: The Making of HOUR OF NEED – A Chicago Story by Ralph Shayne

This past Sunday I missed a program at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center that I would have enjoyed greatly. You see, recently a graphic novel was developed in partnership with the museum called Hour of Need. The story shares the true story of how the people of an occupied nation risked their lives to evacuate their Jewish countrymen. Here’s the description:

“When Nazis moved to round up Danish Jews in a surprise raid in 1943, families were forced to make life-and-death deci...