“Unveiling the Past: Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Graphic Memoir Reveals Hidden Stories of Resilience and Remembrance”
It’s incredibly powerful to see your own experience reflected in art and literature. When something you’ve always felt but never had the words to articulate is suddenly made visible, it becomes real, validated, and part of a larger narrative. Recognition is essential—it helps us understand ourselves and makes us feel both empowered and less alone.
HMM: There’s a section in your book called “The Family That Disappeared,” and it is, for the most part, a dialogue between you and your mother’s cousin, Azriela, about the people in your grandfather’s family, previously unknown to you, who were lost in the Holocaust. It’s a pivotal conversation in the book, because it allows your family’s past to feel very present and modern in a way it had not before.
