Lucien Bunel, known as Father Jacques, was born in 1900. He became a priest then a Carmelite monk and founded a college in Avon before the war. During the Occupation, he joined the Resistance and hid Jewish adults and children. In 1944 he was arrested and deported first to Saarbrück then to Mauthausen. He devoted himself day and night to the other prisoners. He died of exhaustion in Austria a month after the camp was liberated. This is the story of Father Jacques.

A magnificent narrative inspired by a true survival story that asks universal questions about a young girl's coming of age story, her identity, her passions, and her first loves. At the Sèvres Children's Home outside Paris, Rachel Cohen has discovered her passion--photography. Although she hasn't heard from her parents in months, she loves the people at her school, adores capturing what she sees in pictures, and tries not to worry too much about Hitler's war. But as France buckles under the Nazi regime, danger closes in, and Rachel must change her name and go into hiding. As Catherine Colin, Rachel Cohen is faced with leaving the Sèvres Home--and the friends she made there--behind. But with her beautiful camera, Catherine possesses an object with the power to remember. For the rest of the war, Catherine bears witness to her own journey, and to the countless heroes whose courage and generosity saved the lives of many, including her own. Based on the author's mother's own experiences as a hidden child in France during World War II, Catherine's War is one of the most accessible historical graphic novels featuring a powerful girl since Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi--perfect for fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Anne Frank, or Helen Keller. Includes a map and photographs of the real Catherine and her wartime experiences, as well as an interview with author Julia Billet. "Many of the settings are beautifully detailed, and the characters undeniably expressive. Catherine's ability to find beauty in the world makes for a forward-looking read." --Booklist *(starred review)* "This story will make readers want to join the Resistance. Characters are drawn so vividly that, long afterward, readers will remember their names." --Kirkus An Indie Next List Pick! *A Junior Library Guild selection* "A shining story of a young girl who struggles to come of age and find her place in a world fraught with danger." --Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Newbery Honor-winning author of Hitler Youth * Winner of the Youth Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival (voted by readers) * Winner of the Artémisia Prize for Historical Fiction * Winner of the Andersen Premio Prize * [Guerre de Catherine]

At the beginning of the 1930s, Babi Maklouf Benhamou, out of passion for France, left his native Algeria to settle in Paris. After a thousand small jobs, he became a night watchman at the Louvre Museum, which of course enchanted him, as he was passionate about art and culture. Everything could therefore have gone well “in the most beautiful city in the world” if the Second World War had not brought the German army to the gates of Paris. At the request of Jacques Jaujard, the museum curator, Babi must then flee the capital with his wife and children, aboard a truck filled with masterpieces from the Louvre... His mission? Save them from the Nazis who want to take them. While transporting these treasures south, General Pétain announced the end of hostilities and the shameful armistice! Maklouf then understands that he will have to continue his journey in an occupied, torn France! Determined, he braves danger with his wife and children, fighting to hide the Rembrandts, Delacroix, Leonardo da Vinci... that he is transporting. “Imagine the perfect grandfather and you will see Babi appear before your eyes” it is with these words that the incredible true story of Babi Maklouf begins through which director Élie Chouraqui pays a vibrant tribute to his grandfather . In the second volume [image may differ, LC holds 4 volumes], the daily drama playing out in occupied France casts its shadow but in no way diminishes Babi's strength of soul. A moving travel story where the courage of a man and his love for France resonate. [Unofficial translation from publisher]

In the first of two graphic novel volumes, Jacques Tardi -- with four decades of cartooning and almost two dozen graphic novels behind him -- tells Rene Tardi's story, masterfully recreating historical and personal details with remarkable fidelity, guided by extensive research and his father's notes. Featuring some of Jacques's most intense and meticulous drawing, punctuated by somber grays and punches of red and blue rendered beautifully by Rachel Tardi, Stalag 2B is a personal and artistic triumph. [Moi René Tardi prisonnier de guerre au Stalag IIB.]

After five agonizing years as a prisoner of war and five months on a grueling march homeward, Rene Tardi, the legendary cartoonist's father, is awarded fifteen days of military leave. Rene struggles to rebuild his health, reconnect with his family, and imagine his future. With limited job opportunities, Rene re-enlists as a soldier, despite his disgust. After the birth of his son, Jacques, Rene receives new orders: return to Germany and help rebuild the country that imprisoned him. The story takes an autobiographical turn as the focus shifts to Jacques' recreated childhood memories and an exploration of the traumatic effects of war that ripple through the generations.

Based on the true story of Joseph Joanovici, a Romanian Jew who immigrated to France in the 1920s and became one of the richest men in Europe as a scrap-metal magnate. During the Second World War he becomes a Nazi collaborator and war profiteer who provides the Nazi regime with the metals it needs, but secretly he uses his wealth and influence to finance the French Resistance and free fellow Jews from Nazi hands. Due to his tactics he was one of the three Jews who were denied Israeli citizenship. Translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger. Available in both French and English editions. [Once Upon a Time in France]

No one is born resistant. We become one by conviction or by necessity. Isidore and Simone wanted to live in peace with their family. But, to survive and save their two daughters, they had to resist while their parents were caught in the net of deportation. This is a story of family, of the French, but above all it is universal. The author, Simon Louvet, followed in the footsteps of his great-grandparents Isidore and Simone. He carried out the investigation in the archives and in the field to convey this extraordinary story. The designer Remedium co-constructed the scenario of this work, bringing his experience to highlight the humanity of this epic. [Unofficial translation from publisher]

The journeys of men and women retraced, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for having saved children from Nazi extermination. Among them, Moussa Abadi and his wife Odette Rosenstock set up, at the risk of their lives, the Marcel network, a secret organization allowing Jewish children to find refuge in religious institutions. [Unofficial translation from publisher]

The children of the Resistance have almost died many times over for their ideas. This time, they will have to risk their lives for the free flow of information. Or rather the free circulation of information! In the summer of 1943, the Lynx's new mission was to deliver a stock of paper which would be used to print the Resistance newspapers... 250 km from home. To do this, they will have to set up an entire network. Which involves taking the biggest risk: trusting others. tome 1. Premières actions -- tome 2. Premières répressions -- tome 3. Les deux géants -- tome 4. L'escalade -- tome 5. Le pays divisé -- tome 6. Désobéir ! -- tome 7. Tombés du ciel -- tome 8. Combattre ou mourir [Children of the Resistance]

Fourteen profiles of resistance fighters in BDs (comics) who mark the Second World War for their commitment to freedom, dignity, reconciliation and memory.

Little Madeleine Riffaud, born in 1924, lives happily with her grandfather and her schoolteacher parents. That is, until World War II separated the family, sending Madeleine, suffering from tuberculosis, to a sanatorium. Without doubt the worst possible place for the stubborn teenager to carry out a crazy and necessary project: joining the Resistance. Madeleine will however succeed, under the code name "Rainer", becoming an actress and a privileged witness of her time. An exceptional destiny that she tells today in a first trilogy which is just as exceptional, nourished by thousands of details of a memory which has forgotten nothing.

Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. But the story does not end there. Once the Allies got ashore, they had to stay ashore. The Germans made every effort to push them back into the sea. This book depicts the such key events in the Allied liberation of Europe as: 1. Construction of the Mulberry Harbors, two giant artificial harbors built in England and floated across the English Channel so that troops, vehicles, and supplies could be offloaded across the invasion beaches.2. The Capture of Cherbourg, the nearest French port, against a labyrinth of Gennan pillboxes.3. The American fight through the heavy bocage (hedgerow country) to take the vital town of Saint-Lô.4. The British-Canadian struggle for the city of Caen against the "Hitler Youth Division," made up of 23,000 seventeen- and eighteen-year-old Nazi fanatics.5. The breakout of General Patton's Third Army and the desperate US 30th Division's defense of Mortaine.6. The Falaise Pocket, known as the "Killing Ground, " where the remnants of two German armies were trapped and bombed and shelled into submission. The slaughter was so great that 5,000 Germans were buried in one mass grave. 7. The Liberation of Paris, led by the 2nd Free French Armored Division, which had been fighting for four long years with this goal in mind.

A graphic novel at the crossroads of reporting and autofiction, "We won't go see Auschwitz" is the first comic strip by Jérémie Dres. Following in the footsteps of his Jewish family in Poland, the author attempts to break family taboos and discovers with a curious and amused eye a vibrant culture, between commemoration of the past and entry into modernity. Unlike his family, deeply marked by the Shoah and the pogroms that followed the Second World War, this young Parisian is curious to see, to understand: what is it like to be Jewish and Polish today? And what to think of the revival of Yiddish language and culture in Poland? No, they won't go see Auschwitz, 'five years of annihilation for more than a thousand years of history of the Jewish people.' They will instead go to Zelechow, their grandfather's village, to Warsaw where their grandmother was born or to Krakow which is home to the largest festival of Jewish culture in Europe. Over the course of a week, they discover a contrasting Poland, still torn by its past. The author and his brother interact with progressive and Orthodox rabbis, members of an old Jewish association and young, trendy artists. Carried by their instinct and the memory of their grandmother's anecdotes, they also find pieces of their personal history. From this intimate journey, between reporting and quest for identity, a deep optimism and a fury for life emerge. The opposite of forgetting. Between the search for identity and the portrait of a community, Jérémie Dres manages to brilliantly combine autobiographical story and documentary investigation. [We won't go see Auschwitz]

Peter Panzerfaust is a coming-of-age tale told through the eyes of a group of French orphans during World War II who are saved by a brave and daring American boy named Peter. As they travel together, they get tangled up in the French Resistance and their efforts against a growing German presence under the leadership of a fanatical, hook-handed SS officer hellbent on wiping them out! Collecting the first 10 issues of this Peter Pan re-imagining, this Deluxe Hardcover contains never-before-seen illustrations by Tyler Jenkins and reveals the Peter Pan Easter eggs as written by Kurtis L. Wiebe.

A coming of age tale told through the eyes of a group of French orphans during World War II who were saved by a brave and daring American boy named Peter. As they travel together, they get tangled up in the French Resistance in Paris. A story of intrigue, love and heroism and a final goodbye to Peter Panzerfaust. Using the Peter Pan story as a touchstone, Peter Panzerfaust reinvents familiar character and plot elements in a unique and creative way. In the aftermath of the assault on The Sticks, the team is fractured and Lily's father is dead. Parsons returns to Lily to learn her side of the story for the first time -- a story of one woman giving up everything to avenge her family. Tiger Lily will honor her father's memory with one final hunt!

A coming of age tale told through the eyes of a group of French orphans during World War II who were saved by a brave and daring American boy named Peter. As they travel together, they get tangled up in the French Resistance in Paris. A story of intrigue, love and heroism and a final goodbye to Peter Panzerfaust. Using the Peter Pan story as a touchstone, Peter Panzerfaust reinvents familiar character and plot elements in a unique and creative way. Collects issues 21-25.

Meet Cecile as she tries to help escaped prisoner-of-war Julien Sarlat avoid capture during the Occupation of France in 1943 in this prequel to the award-winning graphic novel Flight of the Raven. Julien has escaped from a prisoner-of-war train headed for Germany, but fate intervenes when the train is bombed and among the victims a body is identified as his. Dead to the world, he takes advantage of the situation and hides in the small village of Cambeyrac, using his secret observation post overlooking the village square to watch the permanent theater that people offer in the course of the day. Loves, hatreds, jealousies, cowardice, acts of heroism... nothing escapes the observer's eye, especially not the beautiful waitress Cecile. Until the moment comes when, spectator no more, he must become an actor himself and meet his destiny. This hidden life he had hoped to live was just a reprieve. The book also includes a portfolio of pin-ups and sketches featuring its heroine.

From June 1940 to the end of the Second World War, thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, Senegalese, Malagasy, Indochinese, Spanish, Italian, Tunisian riflemen, deserters or escapees from prison camps, joined the ranks of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior) to help the Resistance against the German occupation. We find them in combat and in the Maquis of more than thirty metropolitan departments...Forgotten Resistance fighters pays tribute to these fighters who are often forgotten by official history. Through several independent stories, inspired by real events, discover the role of these “natives of the resistance”. This album is concluded with a file compiling the photos, articles, testimonies and archives which were used in its creation.

September 1940. Paris is occupied by the Nazis. Rose Valland, then curator of the Jeu de Paume museum, watched helplessly as the works of art that the Reich soldiers stored in this museum were looted before sending them to Germany. Determined to save this precious heritage which risks being destroyed or disappearing forever, Rose Valland then joins the Civil Resistance. At the risk of her life and out of love for art, she secretly follows the trail of the stolen paintings....

A stirring graphic novel based on the extraordinary book by Irene Nemirovsky. Suite Francaise, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Irene Nemirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the early 1940s before she was arrested in France and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she died. The notebook containing the novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998; it was finally published in France in 2004 and became a huge international bestseller, including in North America, where it has sold over 1 million copies. This dramatic and stirring graphic novel, translated from the French and faithful to the spirit of Nemirovsky's story, focuses on Book 1, entitled "Storm in June," in which a disparate group of Paris citizens flees the city ahead of the advancing German troops. However, their orderly plans to escape are eclipsed by the chaos spreading across the country, and their sense of civility and well-being is replaced by a raw desire to survive. There is also a film version of Suite Francaise, starring Michelle Williams, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Margot Robbie.

Although Violette Morris really existed, this story is fiction, a fictional search for the truth. On April 26, 1944, a 15 CV Citroën was fired upon by members of the resistance on a small road in Normandy. The car veered off the road and the passengers were killed. Four adults and two children. The driver of the car was a woman: Violette Morris, former champion with an impressive trophy cabinet in various sports. And a Nazi collaborator. Violette Morris was suspected of passing information to the enemy. That is why she was later nicknamed 'The Hyena of the Gestapo'.

R. J. Palacio's unforgettable graphic novel debut is a story about the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war. In R. J. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. Sara's harrowing experience movingly demonstrates the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives. As Grandmère tells Julian, "It always takes courage to be kind, but in those days, such kindness could cost you everything." With poignant symbolism and gorgeous artwork that brings Sara's story out of the past and cements it firmly in this moment in history, White Bird is sure to captivate anyone who was moved by the book Wonder or the blockbuster movie adaptation and its message.