Polish graphic novel tells Holocaust survivors' tales

Artwork from 'The Bread of Freedom' graphic novel about the Majdanek German Nazi concentration camp in eastern Poland. Photo: Reuters

A Polish artist has brought the horrors of the Holocaust to life in a graphic novel based on survivors’ testimonies, published to mark the 75th anniversary of a museum on the site of the concentration camp where they were interned.

Chleb wolnosciowy, or The Bread Of Freedom, combines the accounts of 11 prisoners at the Majdanek camp in eastern Poland, where 80,000 people, mainly Jews, are estimated to have died. In all, more than three million Polish Jews perished in the Holocaust.