Jordan Mechner's graphic novel memoir about his father's escape from the Holocaust receives a German version at Vermes-Verlag. Mechner will be in Vienna for a book reading at the Jüdisches Museum.
Jordan Mechner, creator of Karateka, Prince of Persia, and The Last Express, has written and inked a graphic novel about events from Jordan's forty-year game development career against his family's experiences in Europe during the two World Wars. Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, has been released first in May 2024. In it, the game maker depicts his father Franzi Mechner's escape from Austria during the Holocaust – “a fascinating journey that begins with an uncle stumbling across watercolors signed by Adolf Hitler in a Vienna basement, continues into war-ravaged France after seven-year-old Franzi's separation from his parents, and culminates with a family reunion in Cuba”, as the description depicts the story.
Now, the graphic novel receives a German language version. “Replay: Erinnerungen einer entwurzelten Familie” will be published by Vermes-Verlag.
Mechner will read from the book on Thursday, February 26, at Jüdisches Museum in Vienna. The event details can be found here. Additional appearances are scheduled for the coming weeks.
