From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt comes a deeply resonant, graphic depiction of newly discovered stories of Jewish youths--from a world on the cusp of a nightmare. In the 1930s, as war loomed in the distance, a group of Jewish scholars in Eastern Europe--guided by the humanistic philosophy that “he who holds the future, holds the youth”--established an Autobiography Competition for Jewish youth. Three of these competitions were held, in 1932, 1934, and 1939, in which more than 600 texts were collected. The prizes for the final competition were never awarded, as on the very day they were scheduled to be given out, the Nazis invaded Poland, and everything changed. These autobiographies became some of the first casualties of World War II. In an unbelievable turn of events, a trove of hidden Jewish documents was recently found in a Lithuanian church cellar--including hundreds of newly discovered autobiographies of Jewish youth. It's as if hundreds of Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light. Each of these autobiographies are charged with a wrenching poignancy, as the authors have no idea what horror is soon to come. Ken Krimstein, with his remarkable talent for breathing life into his characters, elevates six of these forgotten youths from historical ghosts to real human beings. And surrounding it all is the incredible story of the autobiography competition, the loss of the documents to Nazi invaders, and their eventual, unexpected discovery. Beautifully illustrated, riveting, heart-wrenching, and timely, Ken Krimstein's newest work opens a time capsule to a forgotten moment, long since thought lost to history.
A genre-breaking insight into one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century' Stylist's Emerald Street 'Incredible' Deborah Levy A hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt led an extraordinary life. Having endured Nazi persecution firsthand, she fled across Europe, coming to live in a world inhabited by such luminaries as Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. She ultimately sacrificed her unique genius for philosophy and her love of a much-compromised man – the philosopher and Nazi-sympathiser Martin Heidegger – for what she called 'love of the world'. Strikingly illustrated, this compassionate and timely biography illuminates the life of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed yet irrefutably courageous woman whose experiences and writings shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.
An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Fall "Best Read" An Alma most anticipated book of November From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII. 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.
A genre-breaking insight into one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century' Stylist's Emerald Street 'Incredible' Deborah Levy A hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is perhaps best known for her landmark book, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Arendt led an extraordinary life. Having endured Nazi persecution firsthand, she fled across Europe, coming to live in a world inhabited by such luminaries as Marc Chagall, Marlene Dietrich, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. She ultimately sacrificed her unique genius for philosophy and her love of a much-compromised man – the philosopher and Nazi-sympathiser Martin Heidegger – for what she called 'love of the world'. Strikingly illustrated, this compassionate and timely biography illuminates the life of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed yet irrefutably courageous woman whose experiences and writings shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times.
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