Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Vertelling van een overlevende: En hier begon mijn ellende pas by Jessica Durlacher, Art Spiegelman

20 reviews

gemstonejasper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense

5.0

Everyone needs to read this and the first book. It's a raw and powerful story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust. Check the content warnings and take care of yourself, but it's a very important book.

An interesting quote from pg. 90 that I will be thinking about for months or even years to come:

Art: I'd rather kill myself than live through all that...

Francoise: What? Returning groceries?

Art: No. Everything Vladek went through. It's a miracle he survived.

Francoise: Uh-huh. But in some ways he didn't survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Hate crime, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Torture, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Medical content, Slavery, Body horror, Medical trauma, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and War

valreadsallnight's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Death, Genocide, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Suicide and Child death

Minor: Death of parent

kwurtzel3's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Genocide, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Violence and Child death

e_scapes's review against another edition

4.25

Like all good Holocaust stories, this book was frightening and uncomfortable but at the same time hopeful. I liked how the narrative changed between the father’s account of his life during WWII and the son’s life. I think this added to the depth of the story, and I enjoyed being able to see how the events of WWII affected Vladek all throughout his life — from his frugality to his relationship with his neighbors. The scene where  

Art and Françoise give a ride to a black hitchhiker was especially poignent. Vladek was rude to the black man, and it was interesting to me how someone who was the victim of such a horrific case of discrimination was able to go on and discriminate against others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Antisemitism, and Genocide

Moderate: Death, Excrement, Grief, and Child death

dananana's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Antisemitism, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, and Xenophobia

cuntbarton's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, War, Death of parent, Genocide, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, and Child death

Minor: Suicide

madisone's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

This one was only slightly better than the first. The stories of Auschwitz were hard to read, but very informative. The end of this one was more emotional, but it was still beautiful. This is a good series for anyone interested in the Holocaust or just looking to learn about it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Antisemitism, Genocide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death and Child death

yourstrulytay's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Antisemitism, Racism, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Child death

jakepasseri's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

wow.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Child death, and War

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Racism, Torture, Child death, Animal death, War, Genocide, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide