MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Genocide, then and now
FIONA O’CONNOR detects contemporary relevance in the depiction of a society heading into the abyss while the world does nothing
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JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
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GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Adieu Birkenau
By Ginette Kolinka, JD Morvan and Victor Matet, SelfMadeHero, £19.99
IN our present predicament this graphic novel, written by a survivor of Nazi extermination camps, is a valiant testament to the power of witness.
Ginette Kolinka is a Parisian Jew halfway through her ninth decade. In 1941 she and her family escaped Nazi Paris only to be arrested by German authorities in the free zone.
She was imprisoned and then transferred to the SS-controlled internment camp at Drancy. As part of “the Final Solution” she was transported with her father and her younger brother, Gilbert, to Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
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