![]() ![]() He dies in the camps, but his wife and sons survive. The brothers’ courage, Joffo makes clear in the story’s early pages, has its source in their father’s valor. More often, desperation makes the boys quick-witted, as when they persuade an interrogator that what appears to be circumcision is the result of surgery for adhesions. Sometimes they’re saved by decent French citizens (“Oh, the children are with me,” says a priest, casually). ![]() The two younger boys, Jo (the author) and Maurice, travel from city to city, always one step ahead of arrest. When the Germans arrive, the boys’ father sends them off in pairs to separate destinations, instructing them never to reveal their Jewish identities to anyone. This marvelously conceived and executed graphic memoir, adapted from Joffo’s 1973 book of the same name, tells the story of four Jewish brothers who spend WWII hiding from Nazi soldiers in Vichy France. ![]()
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