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Some praise for Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: 

 

"[A] provocative graphic memoir debut. ... By turns funny and horrifying, it adds up to a telling study of how the past informs the present. "

— Publishers Weekly

 

"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

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“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​​​​