Yossel (2003)

by Joe Kubert

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The sketches of Yossel, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II, capture the suffering of his family, the hardships and cruelties of the ghetto, the increasingly harsh treatment of the Nazis, and the events of the 1943 uprising.

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bloodravenlib | Aug 17, 2020 |

Fifteen year Yossel, lives in Nazi-occupied Poland, and must move with his family to the Warsaw Ghetto. Yossel is an artist, and draws vivid descriptions of what happens in the ghetto. His family is taken out of the ghetto to the labor camps, and Yossel gets involved with the Jewish resistance in the ghetto.

ladylonghorn | Oct 20, 2009 |

Kubert keeps his sketches in this graphic novel very rough. They are right off the sketch pad in order to maintain the emotion of the moment; no color, no refinement. Simply flipping through the pages brings on the emotion of the tragedy, but including the story makes “Yossel” a strong book indeed. (

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Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee – 2008)

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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

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The things I saw scorched my eyes and pulled my pencil to paper. I had to draw them. But, I did not show these sketches to the soldiers. These sketches would not please them...

...The deep lines etched on their faces was testimony to the awful pressures under which they existed. One foot in hell and the other in quicksand.

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The sketches of Yossel, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II, capture the suffering of his family, the hardships and cruelties of the ghetto, the increasingly harsh treatment of the Nazis, and the events of the 1943 uprising.

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