Vladek Relationship

• Anja Spiegelman: She is Vladek´s first wife and also Art´s mother. She and Vladek meet in Poland while he was in some kind of relationship with Lucia Greenberg, actually the break up between the both of them, affected Vladek and Anja´s relationship at the very beginning. They got married in 1937 and had their first child called Richieu, who as we already know, died during the war. During her whole life Anja was always a very anxious woman, and suffered a depression soon after Richieu was born, and needed to stay for about three months in a sanatorium recovering from it. Anja´s father was really rich and because of this he helped Vladek in starting his own factory. Both Vladek and Anja lived comfortably for a while until Germany invade Poland, …show more content…
Vladek and Anja sent him with Uncle Persis in 1943 in order to protect him because they believe he will be safer here, he travels with Anja's sister named Tosha, her daughter Bibbi; and Vladek's niece Lonia. But soon after, the town in which they were staying, Zawiercie, gets wiped out by the Nazis and in order to avoid being taken to the gas chambers, Tosha poisons herself, Richieu and Bibbi and Lonia. Vladek and Anja kept a photograph of Richieu hanging on the wall of their bedroom, Art said he had some kind of “sibling rivalry” with his ghost brother, according to him it was hard to compete with an ideal brother who “never threw tantrums or got in any kind of trouble". (Spiegelman, 1980–91)

• Mala Spiegelman: Vladek got married to her soon after Anja´s death, they knew each other form before the war because she was a family friend and just like him and Holocaust survivor. Based on what we see on the book they do not get along very well, she is usually frustrated with Vladek's unwillingness to spend money, at the same time Vladek sees her with some distrust and often accuses her of trying to steal his money. Fed up with Vladek, she leaves him and move to Florida, but later on the story they get