Charlotte Schallié
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Charlotte Schallié
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Professor of Germanic Studies at UVic; community-engaged Holocaust education | human rights studies | visual storytelling | arts-based action research | care ethics | visualnarratives.org | Image credit: Barbara Yelin (Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory)
Our book has a cover!

Art by @mlibicki.bsky.social, design by Tamara Hawkins.

"Two Roses" will be published with @uoftpress.bsky.social in February 2026.

With gratitude to @timothysnyder.bsky.social for writing the foreword!

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August 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Very excited about this new volume, co-edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Maureen Burdock! Thank you for inviting us to contribute a chapter on the making of "But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust"!

Great cover image by Maureen Burdock | Design: Toni Michelle
July 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Join us for the public debut of “Two Roses,” Miriam Libicki's forthcoming graphic novel sharing the extraordinary story of Toronto-based Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc, brough to life through the power of visual storytelling.

@mlibicki.bsky.social | @uoftpress.bsky.social | @uvic.ca
July 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Thank you so much to my colleague for sharing this image from a bookstore in Salamanca, Spain. It’s just beautiful to see Barbara Yelin’s “Emmie Arbel. El color de los recuerdos,” translated by @juliacgs.bsky.social, travel into different parts of the world.

@garbuixbooks.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Hamburg, one year ago. Reposting!
May 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Very grateful to share that on Sunday, May 11, 2025, the exhibition "But I live. Remembering the Holocaust" will be opened at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial.

With Barbara Yelin, Emmie Arbel, @mlibicki.bsky.social and Gilad Seliktar | @uoftpress.bsky.social | @andrealoew.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Barbara Yelin's ‘Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung’ is now available as a German Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) title!

To learn more about Yelin's creative collaboration with Emmie Arbel and the research project supporting this work, please visit

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May 1, 2025 at 6:07 AM
April 16, 2025

Zeitzeugenschaft unf Kunst

Reading & Conversation with Barbara Yelin at the @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social in Frankfurt. Hosted by the German Exile Archive 1933 - 1945 in partnership with the @fritzbauerinstitut.bsky.social and the Historical Museum Frankfurt.
April 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Barbara Yelin: "Emmie Arbel. El color de los recuerdos." Translated by @juliacgs.bsky.social (@garbuixbooks.bsky.social, 2025).

“A work of profound emotional depth.”

Jordi Canyissà
@lavanguardia.com
04/04/2025
April 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
“What I’m interested in as an artist and a writer is to bring out the complexities and the subtleties and focus on narratives that can be difficult to confront...”

Nora Krug in conversation with Lucie Kotesovska. Photos courtesy of Stephen Naron & Nick Porter.

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April 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Delighted to share that "Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung" is now available in four language editions.

With gratitude to these amazing translators: Thierry Groensteen, Olivier Mannoni, Helge R. Dascher and @juliacgs.bsky.social. Visit www.visualnarratives.org to learn more about our project.
March 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Thank you to this incredible team at Emily Carr University of Art + Design who so kindly invited me to speak about "But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust" as part of '80 Years After: Remembering the Holocaust Through Art and Visual Storytelling.'

With @mlibicki.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The stunning artwork of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)

Was she Europe's first abstract painter?

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

@museoguggenheim.bsky.social
@guggenheim.bsky.social

Image @cschallie.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Guernica (1937)
Pablo Picasso
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Madrid
January 16, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Excited and grateful to see an English-language edition in print! Immensely grateful to Barbara Yelin & Emmie Arbel, as well as to Alexander Korb (co-editor), Helge R. Dascher (translator), Reprodukt, and the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives team!

Lettering by Tim Gaedke
Font: Barbara Yelin
January 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Drawn from the Street: The Politics of Poverty in Postwar Manga at the Honolulu Museum of Art

The exhibition features Tadao Tsuge’s hand-drawn graphic narrative “Vagabond Plain” (1975) illustrating the socioeconomic disparity in postwar Japan.

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December 29, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Very happy to share that Barbara Yelin's graphic novel "Emmie Arbel. Die Farbe der Erinnerung" is now also being published by Reprodukt in an English-language edition.

Translated from German by Helge Dascher
Lettering by Tim Gaedke
Font: Barbara Yelin

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December 8, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Now in paperback!

"'But I Live' is a path-breaking book that elucidates the complex relationships between story and image in Holocaust recounting."

Henry Greenspan

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December 5, 2024 at 9:14 PM
So honoured to share that Barbara Yelin’s graphic novel "Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory" is the recipient of the 2024 Gustav-Heinemann-Peace Price for children’s and young adult literature.

To learn more about the book, please visit:

reprodukt.com/products/emm...
December 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM