Adieu BirkenauAdieu Birkenau

"In April 1944, at the age of 19, Ginette Kolinka was deported to the extermination camp known as Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She confided none of her experiences to anyone for the next 50 years, until finally agreeing to be interviewed and filmed, in her seventies, by Steven Spielberg's newly inaugurated Shoah Foundation. To her own great surprise, so many long-buried memories resurfaced that she then dedicated her life to bearing witness. In October 2020, at the age of 95, she allowed journalist Victor Matet and writer Jean-David Morvan to accompany her on one of her school trips to Poland, after which she decided it would be her last. In this deeply moving graphic novel, sensitively and powerfully imagined by Efa, Cesc, and Roger, Ginette Kolinka finally revisits the "biggest cemetery in the world", with her uniquely individual blend of strength, humour, and hope" --