#antonio iturbe

[kpopandbookschild]

i promise theres not very many left i can only put 12 on a poll at a time ;-;

this is round 1 #8 btw, it deleted the title ;-;

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I thought that Fredy had a bigger secret. I know back in the day you could not be gay, but now it's normal

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The Librarian of Auschwitz 

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127. The Librarian of Auschwitz, by Antonio Iturbe, adapted by Salva Rubio

Owned: No, library Page count: 120 My summary: Dita is fourteen years old - in Nazi Germany, that's old enough to be imprisoned, if you're Jewish. But even in Auschwitz, there is a small bud of resistance. Fredy Hirsch, a Jewish leader, has managed to save eight books and smuggle them into the camp. Dita, charged with their care, becomes the Auschwitz librarian. For all it's hell, life is almost bearable...for a time. But the hand of the Nazis will come down once more, and threaten to break apart all the survivors have built. My rating: 2/5 My commentary:

I often peruse the Secret Shelf Of Graphic Novels at work, down in the fiction reserve and not accessible to the public. This one is based on a prose fiction book (that I haven't read) which is itself based on real events - the story of Dita Kraus, adapted as Dita Adler, a young Jewish girl who was deported to a concentration camp in 1942, at the age of 13. She was sent to Auschwitz a year later and placed into a 'family camp' that was used as a show camp, to fool the Red Cross and protecting powers into believing that Jewish people were not being murdered in the camps. During her time there, she managed a library for children; they only had a handful of actual books, but they tried their best to give the children incarcerated there the best opportunities and education under the circumstances. It is, as with anything discussing the Holocaust, a sad story. So how did this adaptation-of-an-adaptation do at telling it?

(Warnings for Holocaust-related material like anti-semitism and murder under the cut.)

Not…so well, as it turns out. Just as a disclaimer here, I have absolutely no doubt of the real Dita's story and do not wish to imply it is untrue, any criticisms I give are intended to purely be criticisms of how this particular story is portrayed. And my main problem with it is that there wasn't really any detail - it felt like it was giving an overview of the story rather than delving into it at any point. There isn't a lot of space to develop many of the ideas it brings up, and it feels like we rattle from beat to beat without letting any of it sit for any amount of time. It's also very clean, for a story about the Holocaust? I get that the 'family camp' in which Dita was incarcerated did initially treat its inmates better than the rest of Auschwitz, and that the true horror came later when the inmates had outlived their 'usefulness' and were massacred, but the art overall did seem to portray a remarkably more sanitised image of a concentration camp to what I was expecting. I don't think the graphic novel was bad? It was just…functional. It told the bones of its story, but didn't really go too in-depth with it. And that wasn't as satisfying as I would have liked.

Next up, something similar - two men who survived the Holocaust at all odds.

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El Foro Literario de Alicante analiza la temática de la nueva era digital con reconocidos autores

La Diputación ha puesto en marcha el Foro Literario de Alicante que, en su primera edición, se ha centrado en explorar la temática de la nueva era digital y su impacto en la literatura a través de cinco jornadas con entrevistas a otros tantos escritores. La dinámica de los foros consiste en una entrevista al escritor invitado para conocer de primera mano cómo los avances tecnológicos, las…

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Summary:

Based on the experiences of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.

Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Displaced, along with her mother and father, from their home in Prague—first to the capital city's ghetto, then northward to the Terezín settlement, and now to Auschwitz in Poland—Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Fredy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees, becoming the librarian of Auschwitz.

From one of the darkest chapters of human history comes an extraordinary story of courage and hope.

Excerpt:

Dita sighs as she clutches the books. She realizes with sadness that it was on that day, not the day of her first period, that she left her childhood behind. That was the day she stopped being afraid of skeletons and old stories about phantom hands, and started being afraid of men.

Thoughts: Overall, it was an okay book, serving to open our eyes into the realities of Auschwitz (albeit through a child's POV, which limited some of the horrors). I definitely enjoyed how the author leaned more into historical facts and figures than other historical fiction works I have read before. It was really interesting to see how he weaved the real into what is, above all else, a story. But, some of the writing did seem a bit stilted at times, which is probably because it was a translation, but I felt that this could not be ignored. The plot also felt like it was going nowhere sometimes, and the ending seemed to be wrapped up too neatly, but it wasn't exactly an unenjoyable book and I was still pleasantly surprised at all that it was willing to delve into.

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Review: The Librarian of Auschwitz

The Librarian of Auschwitz is an eye opening, educational, and interesting true life experience #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Novel by: Antonio IturbeAdapted by: Salva RubioArt by: Loreto ArocaTranslated by: Lilit Žeukulin Thwaites Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or…

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"superheroes can't be fascistic because major early superhero comics were by Jews" is such a weird ass take. Many of our eldest headmate's earliest memories of trauma, agony, sadness, fear, and anger from patriarchic socialization was depictions of "damsels in distress" in 20th century superhero cartoons from the era of our parents' childhoods, based on the Golden Age of comics. I'm sorry you don't get a free pass for this because of being Jewish and also not fascist. What the fuck.

Our eldest headmate spent much of her life clawing after stories and history that handled women's agency whether free or compromised with respect, with the nuance of showing that our feelings, thoughts, and autonomy matters, and how painful it is that so much of the world expects us to roll over, get objectified, harassed, pedestaled assaulted, blamed for everything, killed, stuck with child rearing, doing all the emotional labor, only appeasing and never criticizing, and that trans women have to suffer this too even within the trans community, and that women of color have to struggle with how white supremacy is a vector of oppression alongside misogyny. FUCK THAT! !! FUCK OFF!! DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BILLIONS OF WOMEN WHO HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS THROUGHOUT HISTORY? WHO HAVE LED, WHO HAVE BROKERED PEACE, WHO INSPIRED WHO HAVE DELVED DEEP INTO THE SCIENCES AND ARTS, WHO IN A MULTITUDE OF SOCIETIES WERE ACCEPTED AS EQUALS OR OF EQUAL STANDING?!?!?!?? AND IF NOT, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE FOUGHT, LIVED, AND DIED FOR A BETTER WORLD.

And- and the women who have freely raised families, who have reclaimed sexuality or survived as sex workers, the women who have taken the expectations of the patriarchy and subverted them into tools of liberation, and from both categories those with the understanding that none of us are free until all of us are.

Fuck the legacy of misogyny of superhero comics that we do not know how to say how drastically things have improved in the last twenty four years. yeah its not perfect but if you had told us ten years ago there would be a Wonder Woman #10 comic book cover of Themiscyrans flying (Progress) Pride flags with trans colors we would have said 'no way that DC would even softly reconcile Themiscyra with transness (they have yet to provide a story about that afaik and we definitely have ideas on how to that we may or may not use for a fanfic if nothing else because who the fuck else is going to go all the way with deconstructing the Greek myth of the Amazons based on the often gender-equal Scythians while pairing it with the Gods vs Darkseid lore inspired by that one old comic where WW and Superman fight to stop Darkseid from taking over Olympus).' Instead read about some of the Jewish women who shot up Nazis, there's also a really good book out there about the Jewish gal who ran a library during the Holocaust, The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe

I don't want to minimize what an amazing accomplishment the comic book industry is and how inspiring that is, and that it has a flourishing indie scene that so many good trans stories have come out of. I am glad for that. I just also have some deep, painful qualms with historical issues the industry has had, which we have not covered in full in this post. Racism and the censorship of comics in favor of racial iberation is a whole other thing to get into and we're out of spoons at the moment

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Zira kitaplar hastalıkları iyileştirmez, cel­lat ordusuna karşı silah olarak kullanılamaz, mideyi doldurmaz, susuzluğu gidermez. Doğru; kültür, bir insanın hayatta kalması için gerekli değildir, yalnızca ekmek ve su gereklidir. Yiyecek ekmeği, içecek suyu olduğu sürece bir insan hayatta kalır ancak yalnızca bu biçimde olursa bütün insanlık ölür. Bir insan güzel­ lik karşısında duygulanmazsa, gözlerini kapatıp hayal gücünün çarklarını döndürmezse, soru soramazsa, cehaletinin sınırlarını kavrayamazsa bir kadın ya da erkek olabilir ancak insan değildir; onu somondan, zebradan ya da misk öküzünden ayırt eden bir şey yoktur...

Auschwitz Kütüphanecisi, Antonio González Iturbe.

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Knjige su veoma opasne, navode ljude na razmišljanje.

Bibliotekarka iz Aušvica - Antonio Iturbe

[readingabookmostofthetimes]

Happy that Dita did have an happy ending. I didn't except that

[tearsonthepage]

ok so i went to barnes & noble after school with one of my friends and i got I Was Born For This (Alice Oseman), The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath), and The Librarian at Audhwitz (Antonio Iturbe)

i was sad bc they were out of stock of the book i REALLY wanted (the complete poems of sappho) but i still had sm fun with my friend and i love the books i got (theres a huge dent jn my wallet bc i spent 52 dollars on the books i got😭😭😭)

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book wish list

hi! this is different from my typical posts ig but if there's one thing i love it's making lists! here is my wish list for books that i want to get as of now

The Hate U Give; Angie Thomas

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; Erika L. Sanchez

You're Welcome Universe; Whitney Gardner

Leah on The Offbeat; Becky Albertalli

Picture us in the Light; Kelly Log Gilbert

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg

Cupid Painted Blind; Marcus Herzig

The Dangerous Art of Blending In; Angelo Surmelis

Mexican Whiteboy; Matt de la Pena

Ball Don't Lie; Matt de la Pena

Bloom; Kevin Panetta

We Contain Multitudes; Sarah Henstra

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Kheryn Callender

Been Here All Along; Sandy Hall

You Asked For Perfect; Laura Silverman

The Music of Dolphins; Karen Hesse

Silence; Deborah Lytton

Accidental Love; Gary Soto

Every Day; David Levithan

Me Before You; Jojo Moyes

Artemis Fowl; Eoin Colfer

Unspoken; Sarah Rees Brennan

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell; Chris Colfer

Snakehead: Alex Rider; Anthony Horowitz

Fablehaven; Brandon Mull

Virals; Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (or the Golden Compass); Philip Pullman

The Last Apprectice/The Spook's Secret; Joseph Delaney

Disney After Dark: Kingdom Keepers; Ridley Pearson

The Thing About Jellyfish; Ali Benjamin

Pan's Labyrinth; Guillermo del Toro

History is All You Left Me; Adam Silvera

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros; Edith Hamilton

Starfish; Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mosquitoland; David Arnold

Challenger Deep; Neal Shusterman

The Ghosts we Keep; Mason Deaver

The Passing Playbook; Isaac Fitzsimons

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

Holding up the Universe; Jennifer Niven

All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

Renegades; Marissa Meyer

The Female of the Species; Mindy McGinnis

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Holly Jackson

Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid

She Gets the Girl; Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derric

Kisses and Croissants; Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe

The Rise of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

Love and Olives; Jenna Evans Welch

The Midnight Library; Matt Haig

The Spanish Love Deception; Elena Armas

Every Word You Never Said; Jordon Greene

When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall

The Gravity of Missing Things; Marisa Urgo

We Are The Ants; Shaun David Hutchinson

Iron Heart; Nina Varela

Coming up for Air; Nicole B. Ryndall

Unmasking Autism; Devon Price

Planting a Seed; Kate Gaertner

Period Power; Maisie Hill

Disibility Visibility; Alice Wong

Queerly Autistic; Erin Ekins

We're Not Broken; Eric Garcia

Divergent Mind; Jenara Nerenberg

Loveless; Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This; Alice Oseman

there is for sure some that i am missing so there will definitely be a part 2 to this at some point

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the librarian of auschwitz - antonio g. iturbe