So many things happen throughout the Holocaust that many believe that it's not true or just don't even know what had happened. So many contradicting issues arose after the Holocaust concerning certain events that happened but were not documented, certain writers had different ideas to present, and certain things that the United States did, or did not do, during the years of the Holocaust. .
Art Spiegelman, an author, born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after the end of the World War II. His parents, Vladek and Anja, were two of the few that were saved from the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. As an adult, he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. It took Art many visits with his father to get the complete story. Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. Many people were appalled and disgusted that someone could make something as serious as the Holocaust into a cartoon. However, many critics raved about "Maus." The New York Times said it's "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness .and unfolding literary event." The Boston Globe said, "A brutally moving work of art." "A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution at one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic book. Brilliant, just brilliant," said Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. "Maus" is just an indescribable work of art. It's touching, moving, and intensely inspiring. Art Spiegelman not only tells the story of his father's life, but he draws you in and brings you into the story, as if you could feel the exact same pains and sorrows as those unfortunate souls did in the Holocaust.
