Aubrey Pomerance working with objects from the Zwilsky collection at theJewish Museum Berlin. Photo credit Charlotte Schallié. What happens when family history becomes part of the public archive? Join us for a presentation and discussion with Aubrey Pomerance, Head Archivist of the Jewish Museum Berlin; Klaus Zwilsky, Holocaust survivor; and Dr. Charlotte Schallié, SCVN project director and professor of Germanic […]

The official trailer for the upcoming documentary short film ‘Almasa’s Story’ is now available to view on our SCVN YouTube channel. Filmed in Sarajevo and directed by Bojan Hadžiabdić, ‘Almasa’s Story’ features Almasa Salihović, a child survivor of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, and graphic artist Anneli Furmark, who spent a year interviewing Almasa to create […]

Excerpt from Two Roses (New Jewish Press, 2026) by Miriam Libicki and Rose Lipszyc. We are delighted to announce that our second SCVN graphic novel, Two Roses: A Story of Deception and Determination in Nazi Germany,  will be published on February 26, 2026 by the University of Toronto Press. Two Roses is a collaboration between Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc and graphic artist Miriam Libicki, sharing the experiences of Rose and her aunt,  Róza Finkielsztajn, during and after […]

Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) is excited to announce the publication of two articles focusing on methodology by project director Dr. Charlotte Schallié. In these articles, Dr. Schallié articulates the approach that lies at the heart of the SCVN project, underscoring relationality, participation, and ethics of care as key elements in the collaborative process: Schallié, Charlotte. “Being […]

On July 22, Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) Research Assistant Lucie Kotesovska met with Barbara Yelin, an internationally acclaimed artist and author of several book-length visual narratives who was part of the original Partnership Development Grant ‘Narrative Art & Visual Storytelling In Holocaust & Human Rights Education’. This grant produced the graphic narrative But I Live: […]

On November 5, University of Victoria students Ananiah Bartsch and Lily Schaefer interviewed Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) research assistant Lucie Kotesovska. The interview took place online and was conducted as part of a practicum for HUMA 180: Encountering Humanities Research, one of the three courses that make up UVic’s Humanities Scholars program. This is the […]

On September 26, pages from Tobi Dahmen’s graphic novel Al-Faẓia’ – The Horror: Surviving Syria’s Prisons were included in a one-day scientific experiment in visual journalism. Al-Faẓia’ is about survivor Akram Al Saud’s experiences as a prisoner of the totalitarian Assad regime, and the experiment presented students with panels from his story to review. The […]

After a successful four-month run at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden under the title ‘I will not be silent! Drawn Memories in Comics’, curator Jakob Hoffmann’s exhibit is now featured at the Turm zur Katz in Konstanz as ‘Zeitzeichnen. Comic & Erinnerung’ (Drawing Time. Comic & Memory). For this exhibit, Jakob Hoffmann has brought together internationally acclaimed, […]

We are pleased to announce that both Barbara Yelin and Emmie Arbel have been awarded the prestigious “Against Forgetting – For Democracy” prize for 2025 by Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie e. V. (Against Forgetting – For Democracy). The prize honours their collaborative work on the graphic novel Emmie Arbel. The Colour of Memory. The […]

We are delighted to announce that graphic artist Barbara Yelin is the winner of the 2025 annual Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur), granted in recognition for outstanding achievements in children and young adult literature. Grand Prize poster from the German Academy for […]

Exciting news! Author Duncan McCue and illustrator Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, from our Turtle Island Cluster, are collaborating with Professor Éléonore Goldberg and Alan Goldman of Emily Carr University of Art + Design—along with their student researchers—to explore how the graphic novel Indians Do Cry can be brought to life through animation. Éléonore has been accepted as a SSHRC Co-applicant on the SCVN […]

Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives (SCVN) proudly announces a significant milestone in the project: the signing of a publishing deal with Swift Water Books for Indians Do Cry: A Father-Son Hockey Story. The graphic novel has come out of a partnership between Anishinaabe journalist Duncan McCue and acclaimed artist Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, in collaboration with residential school survivor […]

On October 13, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities hosted a panel and workshop featuring members of SCVN’s Rwanda Research Cluster titled ‘Community Engagement and Intercultural Sensitivity: Ethics, Design and Practice’. It was led by Dr. Fransiska Louwagie and featured three speakers with backgrounds in ethnographic research: Drs. Anna Ball, Erin Jessee, and […]

In September 2025, Jonathan Sandler, host of the GraphicMemoirBlog and author of The English GI (2022), interviewed SCVN graphic artist Miriam Libicki in a blog feature titled ‘A Conversation with Miriam Libicki: WWII Graphic Memoirs’. They discussed her previous SCVN collaboration with Barbara Yelin, Gilad Seliktar, and Dr. Charlotte Schallié in But I Live: Three […]

On October 23, SCVN’s project partner the Wiener Library is hosting a talk to explore how graphic novels have proven to be a powerful medium for sharing stories of the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities.   A panel discussion will reveal those lessons are currently being applied in the creation of new survivor-centered […]