When I Grow up : : the Lost Autobiographies of six Yiddish Teenagers

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Krimstein, Ken, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Krimstein, Ken
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Krimstein, Ken	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Krimstein, Ken	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Krimstein, Ken	4-week checkout	Due 05-21-2024

Preface: Crossing the abyss -- The before -- The eighth daughter -- The letter writer -- The folk singer -- The rule breaker -- The boy who liked a girl -- The skater -- The after.
"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." -- Provided by publisher.

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