‘Survivors of the Holocaust’ Graphic Novel

Order your very own signed copy of Survivors of the Holocaust directly from Fettle HQ! Based on our multi-award winning animated series Children of the Holocaust, which we made with BBC Learning and charity the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association.

We’re so excited at Fettle HQ as our new Graphic Novel Survivors of the Holocaust has been published!

It’s on sale in all good bookshops. It’s published by the Franklin Watts/Hachette Group and is also available for libraries.

It’s based on our multi-award winning animated series Children of the Holocaust made with BBC Learning and charity the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association. (Changed to Survivors of the Holocaust as the publishers already had a title of the same name!)

It tells the personal stories of 6 young people and how they escaped the cruelty of the Nazis in occupied mainland Europe during World War Two and how they came to live in the UK.

Animation artist Ryan Jones adapted Zane Whittingham’s designs from the animations into a comic strip format, working with editor Julia Bird and Rachel Cook and designer Peter Scoulding at Hachette.

It looks better than we could have ever imagined.  We’ve worked fastidiously to stay true to the original words of the survivors, and the team at Hachette have added a glossary and web resources for those who want to find out more.  Thankyou so much to everyone involved.

Lilian Black, the Chair of the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association, wrote an excellent foreword – here’s a sneaky peek …

“Each story you will read in this book is a true account of what happened to six young people over seventy years ago.  Heinz, Trude, Martin, Suzanne and Arek lived at home with their families.  They went to school, enjoyed friendships, had hobbies and hopes for the future.  Then one day their lives changed forever.  They had done nothing wrong.  They were quite simply born into Jewish families and they were persecuted for this reason alone – they were Jewish.”

Please support us by buying the book!  A royalty from each sale will support the educational work of the Holocaust Survivor’s Friendship Association, who preserve the memories of survivors as a learning resource and promote a more tolerant society.

Order a signed copy of Survivors of the Holocaust
directly from Fettle HQ!

96 page paperback graphic novel based on our award-winning animations

Buy for just £9.99 plus £3.30 standard UK postage and packing

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Please contact us directly if you need to arrange multiple copies, delivery outside the UK

or express delivery.

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Also available from…

Hachette Children’s Book catalogue

Amazon

Waterstones

Please feel free to leave a review on any of the websites!

Survivors of the Holocaust Kath Shackleton ISBN 9781445150444

Take a look inside...

 

The Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association

The lovely members of the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association are really proud to be involved.  Here they are getting rather excited receiving their first copies of their book. Click on the image to see a playlist of videos where they talk about the book and why it matters!

members of the Holocaust Survivors Friendship Association

The animations that inspired ‘Survivors of the Holocaust’ Graphic Novel

A reminder of our Japan Prize, Sandford St Martin’s Children’s Award and Royal Television Yorkshire Society Award winning animations – here’s the trailer.

Check out our reviews…

Booktrust

“In this graphic novel-style book six people recount their experiences of the Holocaust during World War II. As Jews, they were each persecuted by the Nazi regime, even though they were only children at the time. They retell their stories here: of what it was like to be in Nazi-occupied countries, of being in hiding, of escape or internment, and of what happened next.

Simple text is complemented by compelling imagery to create a very powerful set of stories – the graphic novel approach is extremely effective at conveying the storytellers’ feelings and the strange new world springing up around them.

It is a deeply thought-provoking, impactful book that will provoke much discussion among readers, serving as both an introduction and an extension to this important period of our collective history.”

 

Picturebooks Blogger

“From Germany and Poland to London and on to Leeds and Coventry, both the physical and mental journeys are witnessed through the eyes of these six Jewish children who narrowly escape persecution by the Nazis.

The visual narrative provided by strong, deceptively simple illustrations makes for a truly emotive and haunting read and one which must not be forgotten. This very accessible insight into a most piteous time in our history would be perfect for any school library or bookshelf.”

Amazon UK

“Destined to be a classic”

“My ten-year-old son picked it up yesterday afternoon and started reading it. He was absolutely engrossed. He said: ‘Mum, it’s good…well, not good, but…powerful.’ We read it together today and I answered his questions and we discussed the stories in the book and thought about what we would do in those situations. The graphics are amazing, the stories are beautifully told and the book is of the highest quality. Great reading list, timeline, synopsis and wonderful photos of the real-life people the stories are about. It is destined to be a classic and deservedly so.”

“Must read stories of human courage.”

“I love this. It’s such an important book. It tells such moving stories that it had me in tears. Every school and every child should have access to these stories so that they can remember the Holocaust and ensure it never happens again.
The stories are really moving. They are told with the simplest of pictures, and simple block capital letters but such heartbreaking stories of human courage.”