drawing it ever awesome that the mice hardly faces, but always a mimic and have an expression that speaks volumes. especially the little mice ...
the family history is shown moving with very simple means. the combination of image and text was for me to make almost all without question mark understandable - and yet it is inconceivable, but the idea of how many times one can be betrayed. and how often you can start all over again.
the father in the story can not hate you, you have to admire him anyway (although one wonders, to which he put the story somewhat schönt). and yet it is very clear how he drives people around him to madness.
I have especially touched upon questions about how busy trauma to a people and the experiences of a generation affect the following. questions that go beyond the Holocaust, but are very clearly visible here in their scope.
not least me speaks the confrontation with the own artist to be, the questions that despair, uncertainty ...
the "facts" about Auschwitz I knew largely already (much is congruent with other literature as "the SS-state" by Eugen Kogon). if I had not had knowledge of this, me much would probably upset in this comic. many still went to the kidney.
a hard book.
I can understand that someone is working for many years at such a thing. It was important.
the interweaving between now and then, between generations, has become very clear.
I found the English version of a little more readable than the German translation. the broken German, although rekonstuiert voices, but annoyed with the time yet.