Dina Babbitt and work related to the Holocaust Neal Adams

adams , rafael medoff promoting spoke out: american voices against holocaust @ big apple convention, may 21, 2011.

in collaboration rafael medoff, director of david s. wyman institute holocaust studies, adams has championed effort auschwitz-birkenau state museum, operated government of poland, return original artwork of dina babbitt. in exchange sparing mother , herself gas chambers, babbitt worked illustrator nazi death camp doctor josef mengele, wanted detailed paintings demonstrate pseudoscientific theories gypsy racial inferiority. using text medoff, adams illustrated six-page graphic documentary babbitt inked joe kubert , contains introduction stan lee. however, adams deemphasizes comparison between babbitt case , struggle creator rights, saying situation tragic , atrocity.

in 2010, adams , medoff teamed disney educational productions produce spoke out: american voices against holocaust, online educational motion comics series tells stories of americans protested nazis or helped rescue jews during holocaust. each standalone episode, runs 5 ten minutes, utilizes combination of archival film footage , animatics drawn adams (who narrates), , focus on different person. first episode, la guardia s war against hitler screened in april 2010 @ festival sponsored museum of comic , cartoon art, , tells story of forceful stand new york city mayor fiorello la guardia took against nazi germany. la guardia s actions stood in contrast relative passivity of president franklin roosevelt, historians such david s. wyman believe did not as have save european jewry, point underlined in episode messenger hell . other episodes include voyage of doomed , focuses on s.s. st. louis, ship carried more 900 german-jewish refugees turned away cuban authorities , later roosevelt administration, , rescue on mountains , depicts varian fry, young journalist led underground rescue network smuggled jewish refugees out of vichy france.