| Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp) | |
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 Cover of Mickey au Camp de Gurs | |
| Creator | Horst Rosenthal |
| Date | 1942 |
| Main characters | Mickey Mouse |
| Page count | 15 pages |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Mickey à Gurs: Les Carnets de dessin de Horst Rosenthal (Mickey in Gurs: The comic books of Horst Rosenthal) |
| Date of publication | 2014 |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | 978-27021-438-5-8 |
Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp)[1] is a 1942 French comic booklet by German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent Horst Rosenthal. It was created while Rosenthal was a prisoner at the Gurs internment camp in France during World War II. The comic features Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, who is arrested on suspicion of being Jewish and is sent to Gurs. Rosenthal acknowledged the source of his protagonist by adding "Publié Sans Autorisation de Walt Disney" ("Published without Walt Disney's Permission")[1] to the front cover. Rosenthal was detained in Gurs for two years before being sent to Auschwitz in September 1942; he was murdered on the day of his arrival.[2][3]
Mickey au Camp de Gurs was first published in 2014 in Paris by Calmann-Lévy and the Mémorial de la Shoah, 72 years after it was written. Mickey au Camp de Gurs has been called "one of the earliest surviving examples of a comic from the Holocaust",[4] and "perhaps the earliest sequential art narrative dealing with the Holocaust".[5]
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