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In the second part of the book we see Art’s father become more and more candid on his experiences with Auschwitz, and of his wife’s Anja’s experiences in both Birkenau and Auschwitz. Art describes people that are ethnically-semitic in the second part of the book, as having mouse heads, so they are easily identifiable, without having to write exactly what they are. Throughout the second part of the book, we can see themes of how pangs of guilt, and torment that arise from living in the various camps caused Art’s father. Great sadness indeed, amongst things also such as hoarding, bitterness, and racial profiling others. This is ever more apparent in the second half of the book. The talk of what life was like inside a one of the Nazi run

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