• The Search cover shows a woman in a pink dress and cream-colored apron running through a plowed farming field to escape military vehicles parked at a farmhouse. She is looking back in concern. There are trees and a brown barn in the background with a sunset and intense clouds above.
  • The Search open to show inside pages. The left page shows 2 men with Star of David badges on their jackets making plans to escape. The page shows illustrations and text about the Jewish Council and the list of Jews. People were trying to get their names off the list, so they could escape without being discovered. The right page only shows partial illustrations and text. The layout shown in the open book is like a comic book with colored illustrations and talk bubbles.
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Macmillan

The Search

The Search

$19.99 USD
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From the innocent to the heroic, from the passive to the brutal, this graphic novel does a remarkable job of communicating one of the most perplexing and disturbing events in history. View full details

The Search

In this graphic novel about the Holocaust, a Jewish grandmother recounts to her grandson how she escaped from the Nazis and survived. With her grandson's help, she plunges into a search to discover what happened to the rest of her family during their last months at Auschwitz. The Search is a compilation of many stories of Jewish families who experienced the horror of the Holocaust. While the illustrations are not explicit, the narration is fairly specific about the horrors the characters experience.


Please note: There is an instance of language on page 25 of The Search. While it will not be new to many middle-school students, parents with young readers may want to hit it with a touch of white-out.

Esther remembers her own experience of the Holocaust as a Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, and recounts to her grandson Daniel and his friend Jeroen how she escaped from the Nazis and survived by going into hiding in the countryside. Her parents were not so lucky. Esther knows they were sent to a concentration camp and died there, and with Daniel's help she embarks on a search to discover what happened to them during the last months of their lives. After tracking down an old friend who now lives in Israel, Esther finally learns the shocking story of how her parents met their fates at Auschwitz.