Yet inadvertently perhaps, Mr. Shaw has demonstrated a possible shift in the way some Holocaust stories can be told.

He argued that this comic isn't just a shocking presentation of a Holocaust story; it is the perfect form for it.

"It's not the first Holocaust story; it's one more story of millions and millions," he says.

But sharing his Holocaust story with students became his mission in life.

This was a different kind of Holocaust story.

I felt we had to earn the right to tell a Holocaust story by following a different and nonexploitative vision, not fettered by convention.

My experience is that all Holocaust stories are far-fetched.

Certain people will see this film as a Holocaust story, and yet it isn't, either in reality or in the film maker's eyes.

In fact and fiction, the Holocaust story refuses to die.

"Holocaust stories are about misery, but this is a story of redemption," Mr. Svoray said.

Yet inadvertently perhaps, Mr. Shaw has demonstrated a possible shift in the way some Holocaust stories can be told.

He argued that this comic isn't just a shocking presentation of a Holocaust story; it is the perfect form for it.

"It's not the first Holocaust story; it's one more story of millions and millions," he says.

But sharing his Holocaust story with students became his mission in life.

This was a different kind of Holocaust story.

I felt we had to earn the right to tell a Holocaust story by following a different and nonexploitative vision, not fettered by convention.

My experience is that all Holocaust stories are far-fetched.

Certain people will see this film as a Holocaust story, and yet it isn't, either in reality or in the film maker's eyes.

In fact and fiction, the Holocaust story refuses to die.

"Holocaust stories are about misery, but this is a story of redemption," Mr. Svoray said.