AUTHOR: Eric Heuvel
STARTED: April 21, 2012
FINISHED: April 21, 2012
PAGES: 62
GENRE: Graphic Novels
FIRST SENTENCE: Jerpeon only has a few days left to gather up some old things for the Queen's Day flea market.
SUMMARY: [From Barnes and Noble] While searching his grandmother’s attic for likely items to sell at a yard sale, Jeroen finds a photo album that brings back hard memories for his grandmother, Helena. Helena tells Jeroen for the first time about her experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War, and mourns the loss of her Jewish best friend, Esther. Helena believes that her own father, a policeman and Nazi sympathizer, delivered Esther to the Nazis and that she died in a concentration camp. But after hearing her story, Jeroen makes a discovery and Helena realizes that her father kept an important secret from her.
THOUGHTS: Heuvel's work is a simple story that highlights a rarely seen view of the Holocaust. The author does a good job of showing the tough situations friends and neighbors found themselves in during this time.
The artwork is very simply "cartoon," but the basic images help tell the story without distracting from the narrative.
RATING: 5/10 [Meh.]
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