Vladek Spiegelman

It has been 70 years since the end of World War II and there have been many books and movies written about the Holocaust. It is important that we learn from these sources so that we are not condemned to repeat our pasts. Art Spiegelman, author and narrator of the graphic novel Maus, wrote a biography about his father’s experiences during World War II. While The Book Thief is a movie about a young German girl being brainwashed by Nazi propaganda and her experiences during the war as well. While…

The fact that Spiegelman decides to shade the character’s black in the last panel reveals that there is something that can not be said in public. Vladek, himself even says “‘I don 't want you should mention,’” showing that he really did not want the story to go out to the public. However, Artie does not really care because he is so focused on telling his father’s story in chronological order that he disregarded and rebelled on his father’s implore of not putting the story in the book.Artie…

search results. However, I did discover that Spiegelman is the topic of quite a few fan-accounts on Instagram and Twitter, none of which helped my research. On Tumblr, I found an official account for Spiegelman’s WORDLESS! project, but Maus was only mentioned due to its Pulitzer Prize. Snapchat had no results.…

classes just because of their beliefs or appearances, yet man kind continues to repeat this monstrous cycle. In both Forever and Maus, religion is the key to inflicting social injustice onto a certain group. The central issue in Maus, written by Art Spiegelman, is the Jews being rounded up and exterminated like mice by the German government. While in Forever, written by Pete Hamill, the main issue begins with oppression towards the Catholic people of Ireland by the British. Even with the…

The Holocaust is the name of the time period when so many Jews lost their lives to the Nazi party until Adolf Hitler. Many survivors share their stories of what happened firsthand, while the stories of others are told by their children. Art Spiegelman is one such child whose parents both lived during the Holocaust. In his graphic novel Maus, Art illustrates and writes his fathers’ experience during the Holocaust in the past, and also his experience with his father in the present. The…

person. Like destiny, these experiences shape and alter an individual greatly. These circumstances shape how people act in society and how they interact with others in their everyday lives. In Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivors Tale, Art and his father Vladek both experience traumatic events that change them forever. Some of these events affect one more than the other. However, the text brings out the idea of inherited trauma and how that leads into the passing down of primary witnessing of…

and never experienced the horrors of war” (Wright, 2015). That is a sobering thought and equally applicable here in the United States along with the rest of the world. To get the message across to the new generation here in the United States Art Spiegelman used a comic book style format which provided every bit as much information and impact as a more traditionally written story. The author created this story from interviews of his father who along with his wife, alluded the Nazi’s and then…

escape from the Nazis, providing a very unique presentation of the atrocities Jewish residents experienced at the hands of German Nazis. Both Blanchot and Spiegelman address the traumatic events of the Shoah and the emotions associated with people who experience close encounters with death. In this essay, I will address how Blanchot and Spiegelman address survival, coping, and death into their stories. “The Instant of My Death”…

Eastern Europe had to go through during The Holocaust. When The Nazis started to move Jews into the ghetto they forced them to leave their homes. On page 105 Vladek says…

Maus is a series of books telling the story of a man’s life during the Holocaust. Which has been written in the form of a graphic novel. But the most unique and controversial aspect of this series is the use of anthropomorphised animals. Art Spiegelman decided on an interesting selection of animals, which to some could come off as offensive. The first animal that is introduced is the mouse. Mice are used to depict the Jewish people. The Polish were involved in the first major arrest of Jewish…