Exodus

Exodus is a powerful graphic novel telling the story of Ticka, a Jewish girl born in Hungary in the 1930s. On her fifth birthday Ticka was given a cat, which she named Pitsy. When the Nazis came and abducted her parents, Ticka and Pitsy hid in the wardrobe; the only reason Ticka wasn’t discovered and taken away was that Pitsy leaped from the cupboard herself, distracting the Nazis and saving Ticka’s life. Alone in war-ravaged Hungary without her parents, Ticka pretended to be a deaf-mute child a