Forum to Discuss Illustrated Memoir of the Holocaust

The graphic narrative “We Are on Our Own” will be the focus of a free event next week at Bucks County Community College (BCCC) in the Gallagher Room, located inside the Rollins Center building.

BCCC invites the public to discuss the Holocaust memoir “We Are on Our Own” at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in-person at the Newtown Campus and also online.

In her graphic narrative, Miriam Katin tells the true story of her and her mother’s escape on foot from the Nazi invasion of Budapest. After faking their deaths, the two escape into hiding, disguised as a Russian servant and her illegitimate child.

The discussion, led by world-renown Holocaust scholar Rachel Perry, Ph.D., will focus on Holocaust graphic novels as a medium of memory. She will be joined by three other panelists, including Professor Paula Raimondo, who teaches in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Certificate Program at BCCC.

“Many people have heard of Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus,’ but there is a long history of the graphic narrative used as a medium for recording and remembering the Holocaust, from artists documenting in the camps and ghettos and in hiding, through the immediate post-war period, up to the present,” said Raimondo. “Works like Katin’s, which use both pictures and words, ask us to think differently about the challenges of representing the Holocaust.”

Click here for a campus map and directions.

The event can also be viewed live online for those who register in advance at https://bit.ly/41uMs4r.

Credit: BCCC