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I slowly began to accept that my knowledge will have limits, that I’ll never know exactly what Willi thought, what he saw or heard, what he decided to do or not to do, what he could have done and failed to do, and why. This is not an easy book to read. It's a graphic memoir of what it was like to

This is an unusual book, which somehow manages to be both lyrical and extremely matter-of-fact. Nora is German, and although she has lived most of her life in the US and was anyway born long after the events in question, she feels horrible guilt about what her country has done. Over six million peop Leggi tutto

REREAD (JUNE 2021) : I decided to reread this wonderful graphic memoir because I'm currently in a massive READING SLUMP ... and I just now realized that I read it EXACTLY two years ago (started reading this on June 13 and finished it on June 14, both in 2019 and now in 2021). That's kinda funny. But Leggi tutto

Must write a detailed review later but I have many, many thoughts. - It seems the author's central motivator is ascertaining what amount of guilt and shame she feels (personally, ancestrally, culturally) is actually 'reasonable', based on what her relatives 'did' or 'did not' do. Along the way, the a Leggi tutto

Nora Krug is German-American, married to a Jewish man. Like I imagine many Germans and those in exile, she had some anguished curiosity about her family's (possible/probable) implication in the Holocaust, so she spent several years getting answers. The resulting book is multi-genre, part illustrated Leggi tutto

Dviem prisėdimais surijau savo, jau dabar žinau, vieną iš 2021-ųjų KNYGŲ. Skruostai dega, gumulas gerklėj. Bandau prisiminti, ką man seneliai yra pasakoję apie savo kaimynus žydus. Ar galiu tuos atsiminimuose įtarti meilę? O gal būta kokio šešėlio? Ryškiai, kaip šiandien, galvoje ataidi mano amžiną j Leggi tutto