Book review: New graphic novel offers insights into lives of survivors of the Shoah

"Emmie Arbel: The Colour of Memory," by Barbara Yelin. Translated by Heige R. Dascher and edited by Charlotte Schallie and Alexander Korb. SelfMadeHero. 192 pps. $27.99.

The theme of this latest entry into the growing, and increasingly respected, field of graphic novels about the Holocaust is amply expressed by the pair of nouns in the book's title: color, and memory.

(The book – released in time for Yom HaShoah last month -- was published in London, and "developed" with the support of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council...