Celia Gurevitch Jewish Community Library

A few Sundays ago, I was garage-sale-hopping. At one sunny front yard I found the slim (120 pages) volume of Justman: The Jewish Holocaust for Beginners. I was curious how a “comic book” about the Holocaust can be informative, so I had to purchase it. I put “comic” in quotation marks, because there is nothing comic about it. But this item is a volume of “Writers and Readers Documentary Comic Book” series, hence the format’s name was prescribed. The editors of the series take serious topics, authors and artworks and turn it into a graphic novel for beginners. Do not let the format confuse you: this is not a book for children, but for adults. The drawings in correspond in their starkness to the subject of the book. They follow chronological and geographic order. If you would like to gain a basic overview of the Shoah, but do not want to read much and/or a visual learner this book will serve you well.