When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Krimstein, Ken

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

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Author: Ken Krimstein
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Krimstein, Ken

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

$63.43

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers

$63.43
Author: Ken Krimstein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Fall Best Read
An Alma most anticipated book of November

From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, a stunning graphic narrative of newly discovered stories from Jewish teens on the cusp of WWII.

When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII--found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar.

These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the Holocaust forever altered the lives of the young people who wrote them.

In When I Grow Up, Krimstein shows us the stories of these six young men and women in riveting, almost cinematic narratives, full of humor, yearning, ambition, and all the angst of the teenage years. It's as if half a dozen new Anne Frank stories have suddenly come to light, framed by the dramatic story of the documents' rediscovery.

Beautifully illustrated, heart-wrenching, and bursting with life, When I Grow Up reveals how the tragedy that is about to befall these young people could easily happen again, to any of us, if we don't learn to listen to the voices from the past.

Author: Ken Krimstein
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 11/16/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 8.93h x 6.87w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781635573701


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2021
Booklist 11/24/2021

About the Author
Ken Krimstein has published cartoons in the New Yorker, Punch, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He is the author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt, which won the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir, and was a finalist for the Jewish Book Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and also of Kvetch as Kvetch Can. He lives and writes and draws in Evanston, Illinois.

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