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Those who just put down the paper in disgust after muttering something about "cheapening history" obviously did not read Maus I. That book, subtitled, "My Father Bleeds History," poignantly recounted Spiegelman's father Vladek's family life in Poland preceding his deportation to Auschwitz...
...visit Vladek, Artie discusses with Francoise his doubts about writing Maus: "It's so presumptuous of me. I mean, I can't even make sense out of my relationship with my father... How am I supposed to make any sense out of Auschwitz? Of the Holocaust...
Vladek, oblivious to his son's struggles, overflows with happiness once Artie arrives. Soon, though, father and son are arguing again. So Artie suggests that they proceed with their interviews, and Vladek takes up the narrative of his life where he left off, at the gates of Auschwitz...
...survive by teaching English to a Polish kapo, or head prisoner--Poles are pigs, Germans cats, Americans dogs and French frogs in the cartoon world of Maus. The reader also learns of Vladek's attempts to help his wife, who was imprisoned in Birkenau, a much larger camp near Auschwitz. "There it was just a death place with Jews waiting for the gas," Vladek says...
...portion of the book which describes the forced relocation of Auschwitz inmates to Dachau in 1945 is perhaps the most numbing. Many of those who escaped death in the gas chambers died of exposure during the forced marches or of starvation in the cattle cars...