Undesirables - A Holocaust Journey to North Africa

"In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the horrors of the Holocaust were not limited to the concentration camps of Europe: antisemitic terror spread through Vichy French imperial channels to France's colonies in North Africa, where in the forced labor camps of Algeria and Morocco, Jews and other 'undesirables' faced brutal conditions and struggled to survive in an unforgiving landscape quite unlike Europe. In this richly historical graphic novel, historian Aomar Boum and illustrator Nadjib Berber take us inside this lesser-known side of the traumas wrought by the Holocaust by following one man's journey as a Holocaust refugee"--

List of contents

1. PART I: GERMANY - FRANCE - ALGERIA

2. PART II: THE SAHARAN CAMPS

About the author

Aomar Boum is Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies in the Departments of Anthropology, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles.Nadjib Berber is an American-Algerian comic artist. He worked as a political cartoonist for the Algerian press (African Revolution, El Djoumhouria).

Product details

• Authors: Aomar Boum, Aomar/ Berber Boum
• Assisted by: Nadjib Berber (Illustration)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2023
• EAN: 9781503632912
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3291-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire