But I Live

Charlotte Schallié is a professor of Germanic Studies and Holocaust Studies at the University of Victoria.Barbara Yelin studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. In 2014, Yelin published the award-winning graphic novel Irmina.Gilad Seliktar is an acclaimed graphic novelist and children’s book illustrator.Miriam Libicki holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is an award-winning graphic novelist.

"I'm convinced that we need more books like this, so that we can preserve a terrible history in a way that makes it easily accessible on the one hand, but also allows a different, very personal access to the stories on the other. I think that this book belongs with Maus in every bookcase."- Tobi Dahmen, comic artist and illustrator (www.tobidahmen.de) "The superb, heart-rending book But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust collects the testimonies of four survivors in a graphic narrative format for new generations. It is a powerful and indispensable educational tool not just for high school students, for whom it was designed, but for anyone. Readers can now carry these indelible stories forward." (Quill & Quire) "The graphic narratives in But I Live are powerful and relate the Holocaust stories in profound and intense ways that words alone cannot. Created for middle readers, this book is suitable for adults too." - Beverly Cramp (BC BookWorld) "The combination of stories and artwork is powerful and chilling." - Dean Poling (Valdosta Daily Times) "Who should read this book? Young adults, for sure. But also teachers. Makers of memorials and exhibitions. Historians, literary and art scholars, everyone." - Christian Staas (Die Zeit) "Last week I was given a gift of sadness, a gift of violence, fear, tragedy and suffering…But it was also a gift of courage, extraordinary determination, unimaginable resilience, and ultimately triumph…The gift came in the form of a recently published collection of three graphic novellas called But I Live. It is a remarkable achievement bringing together four survivors with three writer/illustrators who help portray the harrowing journey of the survivors’ young lives."- Chris (In a Spacious Place) "But I Live is a uniquely conceived and structured work that explores new possibilities for Holocaust representation at a moment in history that will see the end of direct survivor testimony. It is distinguished by its multigenre, polyphonic layering of perspectives and forms of representation, organizing a deeply engaging dialogue among survivors, graphic artists, and scholars, who, in concert, arouse, mediate, and reckon with the traumatic past." - Victoria Aarons, Trinity University (Holocaust and Genocide Studies)

• PrefaceBernice Eisenstein The Stories  "A Kind of Resistance"Miriam Libicki and David Schaffer "Thirteen Secrets"Gilad Seliktar, Nico Kamp, and Rolf Kamp"But I Live" Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel The Histories The Holocaust in Transnistria Alexander KorbSurviving in Hiding from the Nazis     Dienke HondiusSurviving Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen as a Child Andrea Löw In Their Own Words David Schaffer Nico Kamp Rolf KampEmmie Arbel Behind the Art Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar, and Barbara Yelin Afterword Charlotte Schallié, Matt Huculak, Ilona Shulman Spaar, and Jan Erik Dubbelman   Acknowledgments Biographies