The holocaust

Many people know or have heard of the holocaust at one point in their life. Usually they know the basics as in they know that Hitler was the leader of the Jewish genocide and his followers where named Nazi's. They knew that many Jewish people where sent to concentration camps where they where worked to death or killed by gas (or some other form of death). They also may know that the holocaust was the trigger to World War II and the holocaust did not end until the American and Russian soldiers invaded Germany. But that's only a portion of what happened and this book illustrates the many small and important details that most of the world does not know and it does it very well. Contrary to what some people think, the holocaust did not happen all at once. It started gradually and for a long time, the Jewish people who had money, still had some power but with more changes happening and the more laws where made to lessen the Jewish population, the less effect money had on the wellness or security of their life. I personally did not know that the Jewish had to have "working cards" to be able to purchase any goods. Also, did you know that the Jewish where not the only ones killed during the holocaust? While researching on the working cards there was an article about how many people that where openly gay or suspected to be gay (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/NonJewishVictims.html) where killed and sent to concentration camps as well and had to wear pink triangles so everyone knew who they where. That's something no history class has ever taught me. Nor did I know that (near the beginning) the Jewish people had curfews and could not be seen out after that or there would be consequences. At the beginning of the holocaust, Jewish men and women weren't killed, they where just slowly losing their rights and not a lot of people know that, they think that everything happened overnight where one day Jewish human beings are okay and the next they're disposable and should not be considered human beings. The Jewish people where living on the hopes that all of this would soon go away but many did not get to see that happen. It was a horrible thing that happened and the comic book really gives a lot of insight that we wouldn't learn from history classes.