Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

"A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history"-- First Scribner hardcover edition. 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

Sponsored by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dar es Salaam. 55 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm

"Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history. Beginning in Lee's childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child's vulnerable perspective, detailing how one person experienced ...

Discusses Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and the adequacy of comic books in portraying the Holocaust. Views "Maus" as an attempt by a son of survivors to symbolically fit in with his family in the place of their suffering. This place being barred, Spiegelman approaches it through mental and drawn images, inspired by his father's tale, told to him on his initiative. Contends that, in tying his father's story ...

In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Aged thirteen when she went into the secret annexe, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat ...

Drawing on historical sites, archives, expertise, and the unquestioned authority of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have created the first authorized graphic biography of Anne Frank. Carefully researched for historical authenticity, the book includes numerous panels featuring images that have been adapted from photographs of Anne and her family. -- First edition. 152 ...

The author's view of World War II and society afterwards. Vol. 1 number not appearing. 3 volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-492) and index. 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

5. Aufl. 116 pages including frontispiece 21 cm

A Writers and Readers documentary comic book. 191 p. : ill., krt. ; 21 cm.

This comic is based on the book Gedreven helpers (Driven helpers) by Annelies van Heijst. Gedreven helpers, published by Uitgeverij Verloren, is a detailed account of the history of Cordaid. 79 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 31 cm

A dance or circus performance of some kind, on a stage, including acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, and a comic routine with man dressed as a cowboy riding a bucking "horse". This was most likely a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) variety performance to exhibit German artists.

The late Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, regarded this, his last work, as his most powerful. This nonfiction book in graphic-novel style examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of ...

City scenes featuring theaters, clubs, and pedestrian and auto traffic; also a brief altercation between men on a sidewalk outside a concert house or cafe. A long shot of the train station. Some of the clubs or bars include: Rasputin's Love Affair, the Boulevard Theater, the Comic Opera, which advertises "a thousand naked women", and the Admiral's Palace theater, featuring a review called "Beatiful ...

Consists of two copies of the late 1944 publication, "The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities" edited by Joe Weil and published by Arco Publishing Company. The publication is split into two parts, "The Crimes," written by Burnet Hershey, and "The Punishment," written by Johannes Steel. The publication is illustrated with artwork by comic book artist A.M. Froelich and with photographs supplied from the ...

101 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 22 cm

Examining modern and contemporary French culture, this volume includes essays on: changing trends in government evaluation of culture; the proletarian writers and journalism in the 1930s; radio and cinema; and popular cultural activities such as horse-racing, war-memorials, and comic strips. Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index. v, 287 pages ; 24 cm