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She asks how to reck­on with guilt and respon­si­bil­i­ty, and how to own what is yours - inher­it­ed or cho­sen, uncom­fort­able or delight­ful. She digs into sto­ries about life and death, sur­vival and mur­der, action and inac­tion, par­tic­i­pa­tion and wit­ness­ing. Through illus­tra­tions, col­lages, and text, Krug reveals an increas­ing­ly com­pre­hen­sive nar­ra­tive of what was and what may have been.

She vis­it­ed neigh­bor­ing towns and scoured region­al archives to painstak­ing­ly piece togeth­er facts about her fam­i­ly and their neigh­bors, both Chris­t­ian and Jewish.įrame by frame, Krug illus­trates the com­plex­i­ties of her fam­i­ly rela­tion­ships how deeply the events of World War II and the Holo­caust con­tin­ue to affect peo­ple today and the courage it takes to probe (and over­come) the rifts and dis­con­nec­tions caused by events that occurred two gen­er­a­tions ago. They might have been offend­ers, or maybe bystanders, but were nev­er will­ing to share their mem­o­ries of those years.Īfter hap­pen­stance encoun­ters with Holo­caust sur­vivors that made her real­ize how much there was to dis­cov­er about her family’s past, Krug decid­ed to return to her ances­tral vil­lage. In this graph­ic mem­oir, illus­tra­tor and writer Nora Krug explores what it means to have Ger­man grand­par­ents who may or may not have been com­plic­it in the atroc­i­ties of the Nazi regime.