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Yossel April 19, 1943 Hardcover – October 21, 2003

by Joe Kubert (Author)
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Reproduced from Kubet's raw pencil work, this is a tale of inspiring triumph -- of how people deprived of everything rise above the horror and degradation that is their existence and , in a final acto fo defiance and humanity, turn on their oppressors and launch the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
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  1. Print length
    128 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    IBooks
  4. Publication date
    October 21, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    7 x 0.75 x 10.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    074347516X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0743475167
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  • MB Smitty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Art has power
    Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2021
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    This book was a powerful testament that, but for a series of fortunate incidents, we could all be refugees, be victims of violence, be victims of genocide. With a few pencil strokes the author portrays desperation and defiance. A must read.
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  • Thomas Murray
    5.0 out of 5 stars Kubert attempts to imagine what his own youth would have been like if his family had stayed in Europe and not ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2016
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    Yossel is a remarkable tale of the Holocaust that is truly unique. Kubert attempts to imagine what his own youth would have been like if his family had stayed in Europe and not fled the Nazis. Remarkable and truly unforgettable, too many have missed this work as a seminal graphic novel.
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  • Angus T. Cat
    5.0 out of 5 stars A tribute by a creator of heroes to real heroes
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2012
    In response to Leucippe's review: "Yossel April 19, 1943" is a moving tribute to those who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto and in the concentration camps. It is even more moving if it is read keeping in mind the personal history of its author and the history of American comics.

    From the start comics are alluded to, and it is acknowledged that the comics make life a little easier for people in Eastern Europe, who are facing war and occupation. The comics make them laugh. They give young Yossel inspiration and the determination to be an artist. They give him hope.

    Yossel's ability to draw demonstrates the power of art. After his family is forced to live in the Warsaw Ghetto his drawing takes him away from the terrifying environment he is trapped in. It also gives him a form of escape in his talent being recognised by the German officers and their giving him food and gifts in exchange for his drawings. Over time the images of muscled heroes from his funny paper comics are replaced in his head and in his drawings by images of the people suffering and dying around him. There is no change of style in the pictures of Auschwitz because Yossel draws as he listens to the Rebbe: his drawings are Yossel's way of making himself see and understand what the Rebbe tells him. The German officers like Yossel's drawings because the muscled characters reflect for them the Nazi Ubermensch. All that is left of Yossel is his drawings, which the officers throw away. Yet the drawings are the book that faces the reader.

    "If only your heroes were real, Yossel" says the group leader as the last of the resistance fighters huddle in the sewer, trying to escape the burning Ghetto. "If only this was a different world" Yossel answers. As Kubert says, the novel is a "what if" story: what if his family hadn't left Poland? The irony is that Kubert at the time that the novel takes place lived in New York and was already working as a professional comics artist, drawing and creating heroes for comic books. The sketch of Hawkman and the Flash emerging from Yossel's pencil onto the dampened paper in the sewers tore at my heart. Clearly Yossel's wish for his drawings to free the prisoners in the concentration camps reflects a wish by the author that he could have helped the real life Yossels in some way.

    Another irony is that the Ubermensch heroes of the Nazis persished with them, but the Supermen of the comic books that inspired Yossel continue to thrive.

    The residents of the Warsaw Ghetto heard about Treblinka and Auschwitz in rumours. It is possible that someone could have escaped from Auschwitz and travelled to the Warsaw Ghetto to take refuge and warn others. The Rebbe represents the knowledge of what was happening to those who were transported to the camps, and how this knowledge fuelled the Ghetto fighters' determination to strike against the Nazis.

    "Yossel April 19, 1943" is a tribute by a creator of heroes to real heroes, known and unknown, of the Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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  • Adam P Boots
    5.0 out of 5 stars an amazing tale of heroism and sadness in the Warsaw Ghetto
    Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2003
    Basically, Joe Kubert, the author and artist of this graphic, is doing a "what-if" story based on if his family did not make it to America when they originally left Poland. It works well as a historical peice because all of the things that happen in the story are based on interpretations of what COULD have happened to a young man in the Warsaw Ghetto. Additionally, the author makes the story very believable because Kubert looks at it from a VERY personal perspective in that it's a first person narrative. The graphics in this book are absolutely beautiful in their rough form. The pictures are reproduced to appear as pencil drawings, and the unfinished look and rough style of 50+ year comic veteran, Kubert, do nothing but enhance this already impressive story. His sketches are amazing. They're rough, but very detailed. They have such a human characteristic in their rendering, in that they're very detailed but also very 'flawed.' It makes them perfect for the story. They reflect the narrator's emotions and feelings throughout the story and also manage to change as the story goes on, as the narrator's views and beliefs change throughout the story.
    This is basically what a graphic novel is SUPPOSED to be. A great story told through both pictures and words. It's also a heart-wrenching view into a very sad time and place in our history. Normally, I'd say that being a comic book fan would create a bias towards a graphic novel. This is not your average comic book/graphic novel. This is an amazing tale of heroism and sadness told through words and images. If you care at all about good, heartfelt storytelling, then you should purchase this Graphic Novel. It will not disappoint...
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  • JIA
    5.0 out of 5 stars Imagining another time and place
    Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2005
    The themes of time and place are everywhere in this graphic novel. The author, Joe Kubert, a successful comic book artist, imagines what his life would have been like had his Jewish family not left Poland in 1926. Instead of growing up in the relative safety of the United States, drawing his favorite super heroes, Kubert's alter-ego Yossel sketches horrifying scenes from the Warsaw Ghetto. His parents and sister have been deported to a concentration camp, but his artistic skills impress the Nazis enough to temporarily save him from the same fate. When his former rabbi appears and tells what is really happening in the camps, Yossel and a ragged band of survivors turn on the Nazis and launch the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Yossel's sketches are made in the depth of the sewers, to which the ill-fated group has retreated to fight their last battle. Although Yossel is fictional, the leader of uprising is based on a real person. There are many novels for young adults about World War II, but this one is unforgettable, capturing through simple text and stark black and white drawings the despair of one teenage boy, who against insurmountable odds fights for survival in the Warsaw Ghetto. The book was written in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto and should be on every list of Holocaust literature.
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  • Rebekah
    5.0 out of 5 stars Truly A Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2016
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    This was an intense reading experience. I can't even begin to imagine what life was like for the Jews in Eastern Europe, in the Warsaw ghetto, in the concentration camps. In Yossel, April 19, 1943 Joe Kubert explores the big 'what if' in his life. What if his parents hadn't refused to be turned away, what if, in 1926, they had returned to Poland, rejected from America, and stayed there. What would have happened if, while Jews were being shipped off to concentration camps to die, he was with them, instead of in high school, drawing comics for newspapers and magazines.

    Yossel isn't like other graphic novels, Kubert left his pencil drawings, unedited, no ink and colour. This definitely increases the sense of urgency, and as I got further immersed into the story I felt like I was holding pages that had been found in the ghetto, that Yossel had documented his short life whilst waiting in the sewers for the German officers to find his small group. There was a sense of these being quick sketches, drawn quickly by someone who had little time to put this to paper, and the faces of the Jews that Yossel drew are etched into my mind.

    His story, and the stories of others told through him, came alive off the page, and my heart is heavy. Nothing has hit me like this in a long time, and I can't praise Yossel enough. It will definitely be sticking with me for a long, long time.
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