Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance

In this debut graphic memoir, New York-based artist Ari Richter weaves together two haunting stories - his grand- and great-grandparents' imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz, and his own awakening to the contemporary rise of authoritarianism and the continuing crisis of anti-Semitism - with delicacy, immediacy, and an attention to surreal detail.

Publisher Marketing: Amid a crowded landscape of literature by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz stands out for the way in which it relentlessly questions the author's own assumptions about his family, about memory, and about himself.-- "The Forward" Review Quotes : Never Again is dense, thought provoking, enlightening and broad ranging in connecting past and present, and as such transcends single person memoirs.-- "The Slings & Arrows" Review Quotes : Never Again... is an impressive feat of family excavation and a heartrending story about inheritance. Richter narrates his grandparents' harrowing tales of survival with graphic ingenuity while honoring the enduring sources of Jewish trauma. And he never forgets humor, the balm for our grief. I'm so glad this book exists--Amy Kurzweil, author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir and Artificial: A Love Story Review Quotes : [A] provocative graphic memoir debut. ... By turns funny and horrifying, it adds up to a telling study of how the past informs the present.-- "Publishers Weekly" Review Quotes : Captivating... Richter uses dark humor, his-tor-i-cal details, and extend-ed metaphors to great effect. He also suc-ceeds in mov-ing between per-spec-tives and combining doc-u-men-ta-tion of the Holo-caust with unflinch-ing self-questioning.-- "Jewish Book Council" Review Quotes : The word 'memoir' cannot hold everything bursting out of this book... wrestles deeply with what it means to be Jewish, and American, and part of a family, and a person alive in today's world.-- "The Washington Post" Brief Description : "In this debut graphic memoir, New York-based artist Ari Richter weaves together two haunting stories -- his grand- and great-grandparents' imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz, and his own awakening to the contemporary rise of authoritarianism and the continuing crisis of anti-Semitism - with delicacy, immediacy, and an attention to surreal detail"-- Review Quotes : Richter's graphic memoir embeds his grandparents' stories of escape within his own of assimilation and privilege in the United States.--Marc Tracy "The New York Times" Review Quotes : A multilayered book about his grandparents' and great-grandparents' imprisonment in Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz; the lives they made in America (including Tampa, Florida, where Richter grew up); and what Richter calls the safe, 'white American identity' he inherited.-- "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" Review Quotes : Phenomenal... Highly, highly recommend.--Chris Hayes, MSNBC Publisher Marketing : Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is an act of self-discovery and the resuscitation of historical memory. At its heart is the intersection of a genocidal political moment in 20th century history and the author's own family history. Told from the perspectives of four generations of the author's family, spanning pre-war Germany to post-Trump America, it is both a celebration of Jewish cultural resilience and a warning of democracy's fragility in the face of the seductive forces of authoritarianism. Part travelogue, part memoir, part historic retelling, author Ari Richter recreates his family's journey leading up to and extending beyond the Holocaust.

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 256 | Publication Date: 2024-08-20