The Holocaust, was a genocide in which millions of Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany when he became the leader in 1921. The Nazis were racists and believed that their Aryan race was superior to others and that Jews were a problem that needed to be eliminated. This genocide lasted for 11 years before it came to an end leaving only a few handfuls of survivors from the camps. Maus A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman, is about Art recording his father Vladek’s Holocaust experience and memories for a book he plans to write about the difficult time he experienced in the camps. Vladek then begins to tell his story about his life when he was young where he meets and marries Art's mother Anja and shortly after they have a son named Richieu.
