We'll Soon Be Home Again
by Jessica Bab Bonde
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The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes the book accessible, despite its difficult subject. Using first-person point of view allows the show more stories to get under your skin as survivors describe their persecutions in the Ghetto, the de-humanization and the starvation in the concentration camps, and the industrial-scale mass murder taking place in the extermination camps. When right-wing extremism and antisemitism are being evoked once again, it's the alarm-bell needed to remind us never to forget the horrors of the Holocaust. show lessTags
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A fine remembrance of the Holocaust based on the oral histories of and interviews with Jewish survivors living in Sweden. Putting the stories of six children into just 95 pages left me wanting more detail, especially as each account went from the start of the World War II to the end of the war, causing a lot of repetition between the stories. It might be more effective to spread out the reading a little, maybe a chapter a day.
I have some problems with the end matter of the book. The timeline provided breezes by Swedish collaboration with the Nazis, to spend more time on the Swedish refugee program that brought Jewish survivors to Sweden at the end of the war. Each of the stories ends with that Swedish rescue effort. It makes this seem a show more little more like self-serving propaganda. As this article shows, Sweden is still not owning its full history even today:
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium.MAGAZINE-is-sweden-censoring-...
More egregious, the glossary of this book mentions four times that the Holocaust targeted Jews and Romanians. ROMANIANS? This is a copyediting error that gives a slap in the face to the Roma or Romani people, who were targeted with genocide by the Nazis in conjunction with the Jewish genocide. Highly unfortunate.
p.s. One more taint on the project: Dark Horse's English edition was edited by Scott Allie, who was finally fired this year for sexual abuse allegations dating back over a decade. show less
I have some problems with the end matter of the book. The timeline provided breezes by Swedish collaboration with the Nazis, to spend more time on the Swedish refugee program that brought Jewish survivors to Sweden at the end of the war. Each of the stories ends with that Swedish rescue effort. It makes this seem a show more little more like self-serving propaganda. As this article shows, Sweden is still not owning its full history even today:
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium.MAGAZINE-is-sweden-censoring-...
More egregious, the glossary of this book mentions four times that the Holocaust targeted Jews and Romanians. ROMANIANS? This is a copyediting error that gives a slap in the face to the Roma or Romani people, who were targeted with genocide by the Nazis in conjunction with the Jewish genocide. Highly unfortunate.
p.s. One more taint on the project: Dark Horse's English edition was edited by Scott Allie, who was finally fired this year for sexual abuse allegations dating back over a decade. show less
We’ll Soon Be Home Again has the testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust that are presented in comicbook form.
I found this to be a bit choppy here and there. I would be in the middle of reading about being in the concentration camps and the next page would be about being in a refugee camp in Sweden. I was reading an ebook version and I would constantly be sliding back and forth between my pages thinking I was missing some.
It has good illustrations and it was able to show things that the current narrator/speaker weren’t always talking about. The way other victims of the Holocaust were drawn - skeletons, hollowed, sunken eyes - those are images that have stayed in my head.
This graphic novel is aimed towards young readers and it show more hit that marketing point well. It shows the horrors of the Holocaust in all its grim without being overbearing. It’s a great door opener for more conversations. show less
I found this to be a bit choppy here and there. I would be in the middle of reading about being in the concentration camps and the next page would be about being in a refugee camp in Sweden. I was reading an ebook version and I would constantly be sliding back and forth between my pages thinking I was missing some.
It has good illustrations and it was able to show things that the current narrator/speaker weren’t always talking about. The way other victims of the Holocaust were drawn - skeletons, hollowed, sunken eyes - those are images that have stayed in my head.
This graphic novel is aimed towards young readers and it show more hit that marketing point well. It shows the horrors of the Holocaust in all its grim without being overbearing. It’s a great door opener for more conversations. show less
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- Canonical title
- We'll Soon Be Home Again
- Original title
- Vi kommer snart hem igen
- Alternate titles
- We Will Soon Be Home Again
- Original publication date
- 2018
- People/Characters
- Tolek "Tobias" Rawet; Ester Rawet (Tolek "Tobias" Rawet's mother); Franz Seiffert; Livia Fränkel; Hédi Fried (Livia Fränkel's sister, author of The Road to Auschwitz: Fragments of a Life); Josef Mengele (show all 10); Selma Bengtsson; Susanna Christensen; Emerich Roth (Elisabeth Roth Masur's brother); Elisabeth Roth Masur (Emerich Roth's sister)
- Important places
- Lodz, Poland; Ravensbrück concentration camp, Ravensbrück, Brandenburg, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; Malmo, Sweden; Sighet, Transylvania, Romania; Cluj, Transylvania, Romania (show all 14); Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camps, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland; Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Lesser Poland, Poland; Hamburg, Germany; Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bergen, Lower Saxony, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Varberg, Sweden; Makó, Hungary; Szeged, Hungary
- Dedication
- To those who have made me who I am and given me the opportunity to live and breathe freely. - JBB
- First words
- My mother's name was Ester.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Elisabeth has two children, as well as grandchildren and great grandchildren. She says that she has had many happy times throughout her life, but she has never felt like a whole person.
- Original language
- Swedish
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- PZ7.7 .B157 — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- English, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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