Testimony of the book “Maus”

Art Spiegelman:

Art Spiegelman is the narrator of “Maus”, and he also is one of the main characters. Art was born in Stockholm after the Holocaust. Richieu was his brother, but he died during the war, and his mother committed suicide when he was twenty years old. His father is Vladek.

Art is a journalist, so he begins to do a story about Vladek's experiences with nazis. He begins to visit his father more frequently. Their relationship is stressful, as Vladek's is a father very mad and miser. Art feels admiration for the survival of his father in Auschwitz, but he also is frustrated towards his aggressive mood.

Art also has some emotions towards the Holocaust. He is constantly affected by it because the way he was raised by his father, Vladek nurture him with his personal experiences he had in Auschwitz. Art feels guilty because his life has been easy, so guilty as far as he want to have been in the Holocaust sometimes.

Vladek Spiegelman:

Vladek is Art Spiegelman father. He grew up in Poland, and much of Maus traces his experiences in the Holocaust, as told in his own words to his son. As the story opens in 1978, he is married to his second wife, Mala. The couple does not get along. Mala is furious about the fact that he does not give her any money, even for things that she needs. Vladek, views Mala as she was trying to steal the money that he has spent a lifetime saving.

Vladek marries Art's mother, Anja,in 1937, only two years before the Nazi invasion. Anja's father is a wealthy manufacturer, and he provides Vladek with his own textile factory upon their marriage. Shortly thereafter, they have their first child, Richieu, who will die a few years later as a victim of the Holocaust. Vladek and Anja hopefully survive the war. While living in Stockholm, they have

their second child, Art. Anja kills herself in 1968.

Vladek's personality is largely dominated by his Holocaust experiences. During the Holocaust,he had to survive and gather all needs that were required. He saved money as he can. Once so resourceful and competent, he is still constantly working on small projects.

"MAUS Characters." MAUS Characters. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 June 2015.

Alan Zinn Story (Video), Testimony

The holocast was a massacre, in the second world war, in which jewish and other ethnics groups were chased, killed and/or treated like slaves. Nazis were terrorizing all Europe with their troops and armies. The leader of the nazis, Adolf Hitler, was a man very merciless, intelligent and strict person. He ordered to harm, kill or catch jews and other ethnic or cultural groups.

The theme of the story that Alan Zinn is telling is that the nazis in the holocaust did terrible acts. Alan is describing a situation of the holocaust at the beginning of March in 1945. He said that people  a group of a camp, the same camp as him, sabotage a factory and damage a machine that built a rocket that the nazis were constructing, and without that machine the rocket couldn't be finished.

The survivor continues with horror the story saying that nazis take 200 people of that group and hang them in a tunnel in couples.
I think that the nazis did pitless things. They treated jews like slaves, or worst. I could never survive those times in Europe, it was a massive massacre. I admire those who could, and they live for telling the unpleasant that was the holocaust.

"Oral History." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, n.d. Web. 18 June 2015.


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