Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz:
A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma
& Inheritance is out now! You can order it online from: Fantagraphics, Bookshop,
Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Or, better yet, find it at your local indie book store or fine comics shoppe.
"[A] provocative graphic memoir debut. ... By turns funny and horrifying, it adds up to a telling study of how the past informs the present. "
"Phenomenal...Highly, highly recommend.”
— Chris Hayes, MSNBC
"Amid a crowded landscape of literature by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz stands out for the way in which it relentlessly questions the author’s own assumptions about his family, about memory, and about himself.”
— Nora Berman, The Forward
“The word ‘memoir’ cannot hold everything bursting out of this book….wrestles deeply with what it means to be Jewish, and American, and part of a family, and a person alive in today’s world."
— Emily Tamkin, The Washington Post
"Richter’s graphic memoir embeds his grandparents’ stories of escape within his own of assimilation and privilege in the United States."
— Marc Tracy, The New York Times
"Never Again... is an impressive feat of family excavation and a heartrending story about inheritance. Richter narrates his grandparents' harrowing tales of survival with graphic ingenuity while honoring the enduring sources of Jewish trauma. And he never forgets humor, the balm for our grief. I'm so glad this book exists"
— Amy Kurzweil, author of Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir and Artificial: A Love Story
“Captivating…Richter uses dark humor, historical details, and extended metaphors to great effect. He also succeeds in moving between perspectives and combining documentation of the Holocaust with unflinching self-questioning.”
— Emily Schneider, Jewish Book Council
“Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz is dense, thought provoking, enlightening and broad ranging in connecting past and present, and as such transcends single person memoirs.”
— Frank Plowright, The Slings & Arrows Graphic Novel Guide
“Richter’s book digs deep into his relatives’ histories and memories — throwing his own struggle to make sense of the “generational trust” into sharp relief. ”
— Andrew Silow-Carroll, Jewish Telegraph Agency
If you want to read a bit, the chapter "Collecting" was excerpted in SOLRAD.
This is my newest graphic essay for Hyperallergic about the Spielberg movies that helped me understand my family's pogrom and Holocaust experiences.
Spoiler: it's not about Schindler's List.
And this is a recent one for SOLRAD Presents about a MAGA-inspired coup during the first Trump term that tore my parents' exurban Florida synagogue apart.
Here's another recent graphic essay for Hyperallergic about Jerry Lewis' famously-unreleased Holocaust movie, The Day The Clown Cried.
And here's is the original 8-page comic "Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz" from January 2020 that ran in Tablet Magazine.
