My HEIMAT is an echo, a forgotten word once called into the mountains. "And yet, the longer I've lived away from Germany, the more elusive my idea of my identity becomes. " Krug writes in " Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home," her autobiographical graphic novel. "The longer I've lived in my Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn, the more I find myself scavenging American thrift stores for the green-stemmed Riesling glasses, the vine-branch corkscrews and the cuckoo clocks I would have never have thought to buy in Germany. Where: The Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge What: This exhibition traces German American illustrator Nora Krug's investigations into her family's wartime history in Nazi Germany, the basis for her autobiographical graphic novel, "Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home" and explores her creative process, including her most recent work, the graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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