During the Second World War many Jewish children were entrusted to foster families in order to save them from the ignominy of the Holocaust. Based on historical facts, Antoine Ozanam and Marco Venanzi lead us through the pages of the first volume of their comic strip “Le Dépisteur” in a moving and little-known human adventure.
This is the captivating story of a handsome, dark-haired young man named Samuel. Samuel is ” scout “. This is how these former Jewish scouts were named, who left after the Second World War to find children who had been hidden in foster families to escape the Holocaust.
We are in a village in Lot, in the South-West of France, in the heart of a scorching summer in 1951. Samuel must find a little girl. It is a story of shadows and light. In the drawings of this comic, the countryside is lush, the food plentiful, the rivers cool and the weather glorious.
However, the wounds of the German occupation are still fresh for the villagers, not so inclined to help Samuel as one would think. Everyone, our hero included, faces the present with the traumas of a past that does not pass. ” The Tracker » is the 1er tome of a gripping, immersive and sensitive comic book.
A quest for freedom and truth written by Antoine Ozanam and drawn by Marco Venanzi.
“ The Tracker » is a comic strip published by Glénat editions.
At the end of the show Carrie Nooten presents the retrospective devoted to Sempé installed at the French Institute in New York until April 7. The opportunity to return to the work of the father of Petit Nicolas who is the foreign designer who has signed the most covers of the magazine ” The New Yorker “.