But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

by Charlotte Schallié (Editor), Barbara Yelin (Illustrator), Gilad Seliktar (Illustrator), Miriam Libicki (Illustrator)

Overview

An intimate co-creation of three graphic novelists and four Holocaust survivors, But I Live consists of three illustrated stories based on the experiences of each survivor during and after the Holocaust.

David Schaffer and his family survived in Romania due to their refusal to obey Nazi collaborators. In the Netherlands, brothers Nico and Rolf Kamp were separated from their parents and hidden by the Dutch resistance in thirteen different places. Through the story of Emmie Arbel, a child survivor of the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, we see the lifelong trauma inflicted by the Holocaust.

To complement these hauntingly beautiful and unforgettable visual stories, But I Live includes historical essays, an illustrated postscript from the artists, and personal words from each of the survivors.

As we urgently approach the post-witness era without living survivors of the Holocaust, these illustrated stories act as a physical embodiment of memory and help to create a new archive for future readers. By turning these testimonies into graphic novels, But I Live aims to teach new generations about racism, antisemitism, human rights, and social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781487526870
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	04/27/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	28 MB
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About the Author

Charlotte Schallié is a professor and chair in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria.

Barbara Yelin studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In 2014, Yelin published the award-winning graphic novel Irmina.

Gilad Seliktar is an acclaimed graphic novelist and children’s book illustrator.

Miriam Libicki holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is an award-winning graphic novelist.

Table of Contents

Preface
Bernice Eisenstein
 
The Stories  

“A Kind of Resistance”
Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer

“Thirteen Secrets”
Gilad Seliktar, Nico Kamp, and Rolf Kamp

“But I Live”
Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel

The Histories
 
The Holocaust in Transnistria
Alexander Korb

Surviving in Hiding from the Nazis    
Dienke Hondius

Surviving Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen as a Child
Andrea Löw

In Their Own Words

David Schaffer
Nico Kamp 
Rolf Kamp
Emmie Arbel
 
Behind the Art

Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin

Afterword
Charlotte Schallié, Matt Huculak, Ilona Shulman Spaar, and Jan Erik Dubbelman  

Acknowledgments

Biographies