In this exhibition, more than 200 comic strips, graphic novels and manuscripts guide visitors through depictions of the Holocaust. In what ways can you 'imagine' the Holocaust? What role do personal testimonies and memories play in a signed story? Are the works fictitious, or in fact journalistic? What motives, metaphors and artistic techniques do the authors use? And above all: what social and educational role can the comic fulfil for younger and future generations?
“I know something of grief. Search throughout my homeland, and you will find none who bear my name. Mine was a large family and it was slaughtered, without mercy, without remorse. So speak to me not of grief boy, you know not the meaning of the word….I remember my childhood, the gas chambers at Auschwitz, the guards joking as they herded my family to their death…”
Magneto in Uncanny X-Men, #150, 1981
"Holocaust and Comics", Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen, Belgium, 17.09.2018 - 22.04.2019
The exhibition was designed, created and distributed by Memorial de la Shoah, Paris.