German schools will launch a comic book next week that aims to teach above all underprivileged children about the Nazi era and the Holocaust.Although German schools already make a big effort to give pupils a thorough education about the Nazi era, racist violence remains a problem, and the revival of Germany’s Jewish community has brought a rise in anti-Semitism with it.The Tintin-style comic book is called The Search, and tells the story of Esther, a fictional Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.Created by the Dutch cartoonist Eric Heuvel, it is already available in the Netherlands. Berlin’s Anne Frank Centre, which is backing the project, thinks it will serve a purpose in Germany, too.The 61-page book, already available in various European languages, will be used alongside worksheets in history classes at secondary schools in Berlin for six months, after which the project hopes to go nationwide.“There is n’t a gap in the way Germany teaches the history of this era, but this is a new approach,” said a spokeswoman.
