Ari Richter, a New York-based artist and professor, creates a personal graphic memoir of his visit to Auschwitz in the piece "Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz" for The Tablet. It's a short and to the point sequential narrative about history changing with the times, and facts, chillingly, being changed to suit the political climate. And this a week after learning that the National Archives deliberately altered photos. As Masha Gessen wrote for The New Yorker, there was a
" ... photograph from the 2017 Women’s March on Washington. On the photograph in question, the word 'Trump' was blurred on a sign that originally read 'God Hates Trump.' In other signs in the same picture, the words 'vagina' and 'pussy' disappeared."Well worth a read and a think as we begin an historic week in American government.
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