{"product_id":"belonging","title":"Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eNora Krug\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family's place in it all” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). A highly inventive, “thoughtful, engrossing” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) graphic memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBelonging\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e“packs the power of Alison Bechdel’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand David Small’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eStitches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” (NPR.org).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303447011362,"sku":"","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/71B0TXWzKOL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706025383","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/belonging","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}