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Miriam Katin’s illustrated memoir traces her and her mother’s desperate escape on foot from the advancing Nazis in Budapest. With father fighting for the Hungarian army and German troops closing in, the two flee the countryside after staging their deaths. They leave all belongings behind and disguise themselves as a peasant woman and her illegitimate child, staying a step ahead of the soldiers while living in constant fear. Katin reflects on the trauma of those years, the profound questions it raised about faith, and the psychological cost of surviving such terror.
First publish date: 2006
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Memoir
Authors: Miriam Katin
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