Adieu Birkenau
Written by Ginette Kolinka, Jean-David Morvan, Victor Matet
Illustrated by Ricard Efa, Cesc F. Dalmases
UK Release: 24October 2024 • US Release: 10 December 2024
Published by SelfMadeHero
US Sales & Distro by Abrams Books • UK Sales & Distro Abrams & Chronicle Books
112 pages • Hardback • 190 x 260mm / 7 ½ ”x 10 ¼ ” • Colour
UK £19.99 / US $24.99 / CAN $31.99 • ISBN: 978-1-914224-23-2
The graphic memoir of Ginette Kolinka, Holocaust survivor, educator, and “ambassador for the memory” of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Synopsis
It is April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives. It is October 2020. Ninety-five-year-old Ginette takes advantage of a lull in the COVID-19 epidemic to accompany a group visiting Birkenau one last time.
As a farewell, she brings with her a journalist (France Info’s Victor Matet) and a comic strip writer, J-D Morvan. From this trip a comic book is born. Ginette tells of her life before the war and subsequent imprisonment, as well as her present situation today.
Still sharing what she witnessed with the world, Ginette tells everything with her trademark liveliness and biting humour. If we laugh and shudder, it’s because the story she tells is ours too.
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