It is April 1944. Nineteen-year-old Ginette Kolinka arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Her father and little brother are immediately gassed. Ginette is selected as a worker. She survives. It is October 2020. Ninety-five-year-old Ginette takes advantage of a lull in the COVID-19 epidemic to accompany a group visiting Birkenau one last time. 

As a farewell, she brings with her a journalist (France Info’s Victor Matet) and a comic strip writer, J-D Morvan. From this trip a comic book is born. Ginette tells of her life before the war and subsequent imprisonment, as well as her present situation today. 

Still sharing what she witnessed with the world, Ginette tells everything with her trademark liveliness and biting humor. If we laugh and shudder, it’s because the story she tells is ours too.

Adieu Birkenau: – Ginette Kolinka’s Story of Survival is written by Ginette Kolinka, Jean-David Morvan, and Victor Matet, and features art by Ricard Efa and Cesc F. Dalmases, it’s out in the US on December 10 from SelfMadeHero.