Dark Horse Comics will publish “We’ll Soon Be Home Again,” the English translation of the award-winning Swedish comic “Vi Kommer snart hem igen,” written by Jessica Bab Bonde and illustrated by Peter Bergting (“Joe Golem,” “The Dark North”). Set to publish on March 25, 2020, “We’ll Soon Be Home Again” tells the real-life stories of Holocaust survivors. Over 104 pages, six adults, who were children at the time, share their experiences and those of their families as they fought to survive under unimaginable circumstances. As Dark Horse points out in their press release, despite having occurred over 70 years ago, the stories of these experiences are just as powerful and important now, as ever.
In “We’ll Soon Be Home Again,” the testimonies of six Holocaust survivors are presented in comics form. All of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost—and how you keep on living, despite it all. Using the first-person point of view allows the stories to get under your skin as survivors describe their persecutions in the Ghetto, the de-humanization and the starvation in the concentration camps, and the industrial-scale mass murder taking place in the extermination camps.
School Library Journal has an exclusive look at several pages from the graphic novel, which is geared toward teen audiences. Check them out here.
