I am endlessly fascinated with graphic novel memoirs and I especially love the ones where children talk about their parents. This one was definitely worth the read as I'm always interested in how the parents' history effects the children.

I remember reading it around the same time I read Maus. The metaphor and the analogies are hard to ignore, gut-wrenching and often slow - in a good way. it definitely goes on my list of top graphic novels. It wasn't the easiest or the smoothest read, but it is an important book.

It is inevitable that this book will be compared to Maus. Kichka's father survived the Holocaust and this book explores how the author's youth was affected by this fact.

As a Jew, this was amazing to read. I love Holocaust fiction and was assigned to read this in school recently. I said I already had read it but have the pleasure of reading it again.

Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. This was a great read. The illustrations were fab. This memoir is the story of how the author slowly gets his father to share his Holocaust story. The father, understandably, is resistant to reliving and sharing his experiences and would prefer to not relive these memories. The author's telling of his story and his father's story and who it impacts both generations -as well as the author's children and wife - make for a compelling read. I strongly recommend this book.

Excellently organized and entertaining. A real winner for the publisher and the reader.

A touching graphic memoir about the effects on the second generation of Holocaust survivors.

An insight to the impact of the holocaust on the psyche of the survivors and their second generation. Relevant and thought provoking!

This was excellent book. It is in the same vein as Maus, and just as excellent. The art was wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed this book - it was honest and heartfelt. I would recommend this to anyone who is a enjoys reading about history and how it affects people and their families.

5 stars

This is the story of a son and father and how the lives of someone who wasn't even born when the Holocaust happened was affected. The story wasn't entirely linear, in that there wasn't always a natural progression in the story, moving here and there throughout the author's history. This made it feel more like someone telling a story, since people don't usually tell a story from A to B. They usually get sidetracked by something they've said or thought of while they are telling the story, so this felt natural.
I liked that no excuses were made, and that the author never tried to guess how his father felt about things. If he didn't know, he said that he didn't know. I also enjoyed the fact that what the author knew of what his father went through was portrayed through the eyes of a child at first, and then as he grew up, through the eyes of someone who understood the atrocities better. The drawings were simple and honest, with little flights of fancy, and they told the story well.

I enjoyed how Kichka explored his father's history in relation to the concentration camps. The progression of his history and his father's was intertwined and at times this did lead to messiness within the layout but the artwork did try to make it clearer. I had some familiarity with the history of the concentration camps but it was more personal and more interesting as Kichka made it about his father's experience there. I don't know if i would use this to introduce younger audiences to the holocaust and concentration camps but it has potential due to the visual element.

A graphic memoir of the effects of the holocaust on the psyche of the survivors and the following generation, this thoughtfully presented work brings to the surface the discussion that should never be forgotten about what man can do and should not ever be allowed to do again. With current world politics, a message that needs more airtime and discussion in families the world around. I brilliant reminder that Evil still survives in this world, and we should remain ready for it.

I so enjoy graphic memoirs. This one about the shadow that the Holocaust casts upon the generation born from its survivors. Tender, thoughtful and beautifully drawn.

Firstly, I'd like to say thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an eCopy of this graphic novel in return for an unbiased review. This graphic novel based around the Jewish persecution in WWII is a little different from other novels on the subject, not only is the art within drawn in a more humorous manner than usual, but the perspective is from that of the victim's son. Second Generation tells the story of how Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis had an impact on their family around them once the nightmare of the concentration camps was far in their past. 

It was so interesting to read how Michel interpreted his fathers' experiences and how he felt alienated from his father due to his decision to withhold and disclose certain varying aspects of his life history, depending on the situation and the timing. It also affected what he and his siblings felt they could do in their childhoods, so not to affect their father. He mentions that he feels like he never had the chance to experience teenage angst because his fathers' opportunity was taken by the Nazis, and despite this being a small issue it really impacts an individuals childhood experience and how their personalities are shaped. There was, for someone who has no family history of being affected by the Nazis, a surprising amount of impact passed down the generations to those who weren't even born when the Nazis were in power. This was very sad but very interesting to learn about.

I really enjoyed this graphic novel, and although I am biased as I have a fascination with anything based around WWII I genuinely think this will be a book enjoyed by a large number of people and one that should be promoted more. A five star read for me.

This graphic novel is a wonderful telling of the life of a second generation holocaust survivor. It follows the life and thoughts of Michel, the son of a camp survivor and details his own experiences of living with his dad and dealing with his fathers experiences of the camp.

I loved the honest nature of this story and how Michel felt throughout his childhood. I like the raw nature of how dealt with his fathers emotions in regard to the camp and how he coped with them as well as how they truly affected his relationship with his father.

The artwork is wonderful and really fits the story and style of story telling.

Interesting perspective of someone growing up as the son of a Holocaust survivor. So many heart-wrenching stories of this father. Both during the war, and the impact after the war. After the Holocaust. Evil survives in so many ways, even after it seems to be gone. Google “second generation syndrome”. The cartoon-y style might make such a difficult subject a bit easier to read; but it communicates the the pain and difficulty of living such a life. Well worth the time it takes to read it.

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and Europe Comics for a copy in return for an honest review.</i>

I hate to read anything about the Holocaust because it just really hurts my soul and makes me feel so sick, but this graphic novel offers a very unique point of view: it is the story of a man's holocaust journey as seen through the eyes of his son, a "second generation" holocaust survivor. That means the son was affected by The Shoa but in a roundabout way - the story deals with having to cope with a parent that has been traumatized beyond belief, and how that trauma was manifested in his children's upbringing. It's definitely worth a read.

There is a saying that the suffering of those who survived the holocaust, is passed down to the second generation. In this autobiographical memoire of his life, Michel goes over his childhood, as well as his dad's experience in Auschwitz.

This is not <em>Maus</em>, but it is like it in that the son is trying to understand his father. And learn his art from his father, as his father was a cartoonist before he was sent to the camps, and didn't pick up art until he retired years later.

But this is not so much a story of the camps, but how Michel say his father after the camps. How his father lead tours of Auschwitz, to school children. How his father would make jokes about how soup reminded him of the camps, because there was no soup there. Dark humor.

Michel said it took him ten years to write this because it was so hard to pull it out of his head. He had no problem thinking about it, but writing it was another matter.

Stirring, and sad. Funny, but distressing. The second generation has to figure out how to live with their parents who didn't know what to do with them, except send them off to boarding school.

This panel, below, reminds me that though my father was not put in the camps, but he too had a very hard view of others. He lived through the depression, and felt that the way he lived was the right way, as well.

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We are a part of our parents, no matter how much we reject it, and Michel felt this was the best way to tell his story.

A good contribution to the body of holocaust books out there.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

A story of the author's living in the shadow of his father's Holocaust experience. As a boy, Dad was always right -- always important not to argue with him because he'd live through too much. As a man, Dad still managed to bring things around to himself and his time in the Shoah (Dad wrote a book, and gave witness at Auschwitz).

File Under: Memoir

Predictably gloomy nonfiction comic about life after concentration camps and the echoes of Hitler and WW2 through the years. Not terrible just not much fun to read and a bit of a slog if you’re already familiar with the subject like I am.