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Mar 29, 2017
Shannon
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This was a perfect book to read the week after visiting the National Holocaust Museum. While the museum was devastating (why was I the only person crying my way through it?), this book is an unvarnished look at one family's experience. Spiegelman's book has been banned or challenged because of its depiction of the Polish people who were complicit in the Holocaust. But what I found most surprising and sad was how many Jews persecuted other Jews in an attemp ...more
This was a perfect book to read the week after visiting the National Holocaust Museum. While the museum was devastating (why was I the only person crying my way through it?), this book is an unvarnished look at one family's experience. Spiegelman's book has been banned or challenged because of its depiction of the Polish people who were complicit in the Holocaust. But what I found most surprising and sad was how many Jews persecuted other Jews in an attemp ...more
Jul 20, 2010
Dana Berglund
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I don't know whether to put this on my Young Adult shelf or not. I'm using it with high schoolers to learn about the Holocaust, but I don't think it's really "Young Adult" in content. It's a graphic novel, but that doesn't take away from the solemnity of most of the content.
The book is set up almost as a story-within-a-story. The pages tell the story of a slightly younger Artie trying to get the story of 1930s-40s Europe out of his father, Vladek. Vladek's journey and troubles are shown in the b ...more
The book is set up almost as a story-within-a-story. The pages tell the story of a slightly younger Artie trying to get the story of 1930s-40s Europe out of his father, Vladek. Vladek's journey and troubles are shown in the b ...more
A unique way to share the dramatic biography of a relative who survived the Holocaust.
this is amazing.
Review to come.
Interesting but hard to read at times because of the speech pattern.
Sep 28, 2012
K
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it was amazing
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Anne Gresham
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