Prodded by her young granddaughter’s questions, Dounia Cohen tells an affecting story of how her childhood changed in 1942, when the Jews of France became the objects of Nazi repression. In Hidden (First Second Books), a graphic novel, one family’s history of the Holocaust story becomes accessible and immediate to young readers — and absorbing for older readers, too. French comics writer Loïc Dauvillier teams with illustrator Marc Lizano and colorist Greg Salsedo to convey a story designed to inspire young people “to fight against injustice and abuse of power and keep alive a spirit of resistance,” according to the book’s afterword, which notes that 11,400 French children were murdered in the Shoah. — Mordecai Specktor
(American Jewish World, 1.3.14)
