When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein synced After twelve years in the

After twelve years in the US

alcoholism

Accompanied by brilliant improvisers Rohan Kriwazcek on The Saddest Bagpipes in the World and Merlin Shepherd on saxophone

itinerant culture alive through children's songs

” on the travails of East European Jews in the First World War

When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers by Ken Krimstein synced After twelve years in theWhen I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never before published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in Eastern Europe in the 1930s, just before the horror of the