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Vladek tells how he adjusted to camp life and helped learn to 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...
...narrative of Maus would leave the reader breathless with disgust if Spiegelman did not often interrupt it to tell the story of his relationship with his father. The survivor's tale which seems the main thread of Maus's narrative is made more palpable as the reader gets to know Vladek both in camp life and "ordinary" life...
...Maus is, above all, a story of a family and how something which is now, in so many minds, an abstract historic events, can still touch everyday lives. Spiegelman realizes the historical importance of the Holocaust--how could he fail...
...time at which so many fail to even attempt to understand the Holocaust, Maus is a welcome and important work. Although its readers will learn about the Holocaust, they will, perhaps, learn something more important about what the lessons of the Nazi project are for humanity...
...Crimson recently spoke with Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and the recently released Maus II, cartoon books which chronicle his father's experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The following are excerpts from that conversation...