A Survivor Of The Holocaust In Valadek's Maus

Maus is a story told from Arts father, Vladek, experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. An amazing story from a survivor’s point of view, in the form of a comic depicting different nationalities as animals like Jewish as mice,
Polish as pigs, German as cat, American as dogs, etc. I think this is a great way to deescalate the hatred toward a certain group or nationality. Maus deliver people to view a story from more of a fairytale perspective separating the current feeling and attitude of those who know about the holocaust because the characters are not people but animals. An interesting fact about this book is that even though this book is about the Holocaust, it does not focus on the death or killing of jews or the hate of Nazi. My grandma is a survivor of Japanese attack during …show more content…
This is especially helpful because he had to be very creative and intelligent in order to try and survive throughout the Holocaust with things like money or food to help him out as much as possible. Valadek first encounter with the start of the Holocaust is when he was captured as a POW by the Germans and forced into labor camp with little food and basic necessity. After returning to Poland he found everything has changing all Jewish business and homes were taken away and given to the Polish or Germans. Jewish people were disappearing or being killed indiscriminately. This was the beginning of the war where many of the Jews were being deported to camps starting with the old and than to everyone else. I think this is important to show that at the beginning of the war the Germans tried to control people by slowly taking away their rights and giving them rules like curfew but at the end the Germans are outright illegally taking people off the street and killing them or putting them into concentration