Editing Neal Adams (section)

== Dina Babbitt and work related to the Holocaust ==
[[File:5.22.11AdamsMedoffByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|Adams and [[Rafael Medoff]] promoting ''They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust'' at the [[Big Apple Convention]], May 21, 2011]]

In collaboration with [[Rafael Medoff]], director of the [[David Wyman|David S. Wyman]] Institute for Holocaust Studies, Adams championed an effort to get the [[Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum]], which is operated by the government of [[Poland]], to return the original artwork of [[Dina Babbitt]]. In exchange for his sparing her mother and herself from the gas chambers, Babbitt worked as an illustrator for [[Nazi death camp]] doctor [[Josef Mengele]], who wanted detailed paintings to demonstrate his pseudoscientific theories about [[Romani people|Romani]] racial inferiority.<ref name="gustines">{{cite news | title = Comic-Book Idols Rally to Aid a Holocaust Artist | last = Gustines | first = George Gene | author-link = George Gustines | date = August 8, 2008 | access-date = August 9, 2008 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/design/09comi.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220612204806/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/arts/design/09comi.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1326568426-f4EJuHS+x+3WtyYAlo7NTA | archive-date = June 12, 2022 | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] | url-status=dead | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Using text from Medoff, Adams illustrated a six-page graphic documentary about Babbitt that was inked by [[Joe Kubert]] and contains an introduction by [[Stan Lee]].<ref name="babbitt-book">{{cite web | title = Story of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt |author1=Rafael Medoff |author2=Neal Adams |author3=Joe Kubert |author4=Stan Lee | date = August 8, 2008 | access-date = August 10, 2008 | url = http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110606050821/http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/arts/Babbitt_pages1-6.pdf| archive-date = June 6, 2011| url-status=live |  publisher = Comics for a Cause}}</ref> However, Adams deemphasized any comparison between the Babbitt case and his struggle for creator rights, saying that her situation was "tragic" and "an atrocity."<ref name="gustines" />

In 2010, Adams and Medoff teamed with [[Disney Educational Productions]] to produce ''They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust'', an online educational motion comics series that tells stories of Americans who protested Nazis or helped rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Each standalone episode, which runs from five to ten minutes, utilizes a combination of archival film footage and [[Traditional animation#Animatic|animatics]] drawn by Adams (who also narrates), and focus on a different person. The first episode, "La Guardia's War Against Hitler" was screened in April 2010 at a festival sponsored by the [[Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art]], and tells the story of the forceful stand New York City Mayor [[Fiorello La Guardia]] took against Nazi Germany. La Guardia's actions stood in contrast to the relative passivity of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]], who historians such as David S. Wyman believe did not do as much as he could have to save European Jews,<ref>{{cite book| last = Wyman| first = David S.| author-link = David Wyman| title = The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941–1945 | url = https://archive.org/details/abandonmentofjew1998wyma| url-access = registration| publisher = New Press| year = 1998|isbn= 1-56584-415-7}}</ref> a point underlined in the episode "Messenger from Hell". Other episodes include "Voyage of the Doomed", which focuses on the [[S.S. St. Louis|S.S. ''St. Louis'']], the ship that carried more than 900 German-Jewish refugees but was turned away by Cuban authorities and later the Roosevelt administration, and "Rescue Over the Mountains", which depicts [[Varian Fry]], the young journalist who led an underground rescue network that smuggled Jewish refugees out of [[Vichy France]].<ref>Chandler, Doug. "A New Medium for Holocaust Studies", ''[[The New York Jewish Week]]'', Vol. 222 No. 46, April 16, 2010</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://dep.disney.go.com/theyspokeout/|title= They Spoke Out: American Voices Against the Holocaust|date= n.d.|publisher= [[The Walt Disney Company]]|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160313095331/http://dep.disney.go.com/theyspokeout/|archive-date= March 13, 2016|url-status= dead|df= mdy-all|access-date= May 26, 2011}}</ref>