Yossel
In this graphic novel, one of the all-time great American comic artists imagines how his life might have gone had his family not left Poland in 1926. As with other Jews, they end up in the Warsaw ghetto. Joe, at 16 (in reality he was a successful artist at DC by then), is soon left orphaned, treated better than most by the Nazis because his drawings entertain them. The story climaxes with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943, one of the most desperately tragic events in modern history, where handfuls of half-starved Jews with a few stolen and improvised weapons tried to fight back against thousands of German soldiers, with tanks, flame throwers and so on, because they knew that not fighting back meant a trip to the death camps.
