“Unveiling the Past: Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Graphic Memoir Reveals Hidden Stories of Resilience and Remembrance”
Joanna Rubin Dranger: I personally love the graphic memoir and the graphic novel format — it’s a unique storytelling language that allows for the seamless combination of images and text, making it particularly well suited for conveying complex narratives. The power of images is that they can communicate emotions and nuances that words alone sometimes cannot. Some visuals are direct and striking, capable of expressing complicated emotions in an instant.
In Remember Us to Life, certain images needed to be actual photographs of artifacts—like the Swedish Nazi registry cards documenting Jews, which were discovered hidden behind a wall after the war. These historical traces carry a weight that only a real photograph can convey.
