Landscapes of Memory: Visualizing Holocaust Testimony in But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust

We are now at a time that will see the end of direct survivor testimony, and thus the transmission of Holocaust memory is increasingly complicated by its mediation through the voices and narratives of subsequent generations of Holocaust writers and scholars. The rendition of Holocaust testimony has expanded to include not only visual and textual forms of representation, but the hybrid genre of Holocaust graphic narratives. But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, , a polyphonic dialogue among scholars, survivors, and graphic artists, is an innovative approach to Holocaust representation that depends upon not only a conversation among text and image but also past and present. At the center of this book are the testimonies of child survivors, whose accounts of resilience and resistance are illustrated by comics artists. This article discusses the ways in which comics artists, in reinscribing survivors' narratives, create a visual testimony to memory by recreating a material landscape of trauma.