Chutz-pow! Superheroes Of The Holocaust Vol. 1 The UpStanders

Plot

CHUTZ-POW! SUPERHEROES OF THE HOLOCAUST is an acclaimed and ongoing comic-book series created and published by The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh that seeks, as its mission, to place stories of UpStanders’ courage, resilience, and sacrifice at the forefront of Holocaust awareness. Each volume is an anthology by award-winning creative collaborators, telling true-life stories of heroic survivors who brought light into some of the darkest recesses of World War II. Created for both general and scholastic audiences ages 12 and up, CHUTZ-POW! unravels the larger narrative of the Holocaust with thematic volumes that explore the documented micro-histories of its profiled subjects. With vivid, historically-accurate art and stirring fact-based writing, these are stories that defy the expectations of conventional superhero comic books. VOLUME ONE: THE UPSTANDERS introduces readers to five survivors who each used various forms of resistance to defy the Nazis before eventually relocating to Pittsburgh; VOLUME TWO: INTERNATIONAL HEROES tells the dramatic stories of other, more globally well-known figures. VOLUME THREE: THE YOUNG SURVIVORS, released in February 2018, focuses on the stories of survivors who were children during the Holocaust.