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Write a commentary, with evidence from the works, about your author's treatment of the Holocaust, with allusions/references to other Holocaust books, movies or artwork. What is unique about MAUS; how does Spiegelman set his work apart from other works on this grim topic

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Write a commentary, with evidence from the works, about your author's treatment of the Holocaust, with allusions/references to other Holocaust books, movies or artwork. What is unique about MAUS; how does Spiegelman set his work apart from other works on this grim topic

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The books night and all but my life by Gerda Wielselmann and Elie Wiesel, talk about the informational detail on how Auschwitz and just a flashback. He Vladek still has emotions for this place. The thing that is unique about Maus that you make your own schedule ability. Spiegelman sets his work from others, but I gotta see if they’ll let me off. Elie Wiesel says “He was weeping with joy. He would have liked to stay longer, to learn more details, to soak up the good news, but an SS was heading in our direction and he had to go, telling us that he would come back the next day. (3.154-3.157)

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Vladek Spiegelman is upset that Artie and Françoise are planning to leave him alone the next day. He tries to give them half-eaten food to take home but Artie refuses, so Vladek decides to try to return it to the grocery store. On their way there, he continues his story. Nearing the end of the war, the Russians are about 25 miles away from Auschwitz, and the Germans are making preparations to move everyone in the camp into Germany. Vladek and a group of men prepare to hide in a attic but abandon the plan after hearing the Germans are going to bomb and burn the entire camp. They fall in line with the other prisoners and have to endure a walk of hundreds of miles into Germany. After a brief stop at another small camp called Gross-Rosen, the prisoners are loaded onto a cattle train. The car is dangerously crowded, and they go without food and water for days on end. Again miraculously, Vladek is one of 25 out of 200 people who survive the train ride, which takes them to Dachau, outside the German city of Munich. Dachau is overrun with lice, which are spreading typhus, a bacterial disease. People are dying from illness and fighting over soup, which isn't served to anyone who has lice on their clothing. Vladek gets an infection in his hand, and after he is released from the infirmary he meets a Frenchman who speaks English. The man is so grateful to be able to talk to someone else that he shares with Vladek the care packages his family sends him. Vladek trades some of the food to secure clean shirts for both himself and the Frenchman. Now they always get soup. Vladek is stricken with typhus a few weeks later. He is taken to the infirmary, but he is too weak to eat and talk. Everyone assumes he's going to die. He hangs on, paying other patients with bread for assistance to and from the toilet. When his fever breaks, he's released from the camp as part of a prisoner of war exchange. He and other patients from the infirmary are put on a train heading toward the Swiss border. Françoise stops the car on the way home from the grocery store to pick up a hitchhiker, who is black. Vladek freaks out. He doesn't trust this "shvatsa" (a derogatory Yiddish term meaning "black man") and watches the man closely to make sure he doesn't steal any of their food. Françoise is livid with Vladek after they drop off the man. "How can you, of all people, be such a racist!" she demands. "You talk about blacks the way the Nazis talked about the Jews!" Vladek insists there's no comparison. They go home to have lunch.

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It is February 1987. Vladek Spiegelman died in 1982. Artie is overwhelmed by the success of the first volume of Maus, which was published to critical and commercial acclaim in 1986. He's also depressed. Thinking about the Holocaust all the time is taking its toll, and he feels like anything but a "functioning adult." A visit to his psychiatrist, Pavel, puts things in perspective. Artie goes home and listens to some of his father's taped interviews from the summer of 1979, when he and Françoise visited Vladek in the Catskills. Vladek's work in the tin shop takes him all over the camp to repair roofs. This is how he meets Mancie, a kind woman leading a group of female workers from Birkenau, the second of the Auschwitz camps. She acts as a go-between for Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, delivering letters and food. Vladek gets to Birkenau himself on a work excursion and gets to see Anja in person. Just talking to her is dangerous—a suspicious guard nearly beats Vladek to death on one occasion. Vladek doesn't dare go to the hospital, which is known as a one-way ticket to the gas chamber. By using his quick wits, Vladek gets himself a job as the only shoemaker in Auschwitz. He does top-notch work, and his reputation spreads among the officers in the Gestapo, who bring him food as thanks. He even repairs the shoe of Anja's cruel kapo, who takes Anja under her wing afterward. The shoe shop closes after a few months, and Vladek is moved away from his warm and solitary work environment to "black work," or hard outdoor labor. On the bright side, Anja has been transferred to the new women's barracks in Auschwitz thanks to bribes organized by Vladek. Vladek is moved back to the tin shop toward the end of 1944. The Russians are getting close, and tin men are needed to take apart the machinery in the gas chambers. Huge holes are being dug outside the gas chambers. They are mass graves. Vladek says the "lucky ones" are dead from the gas chambers when their bodies are thrown in. Others are put in alive before being burned to death. Artie asks Vladek why the Jews didn't resist. Vladek says they were too hungry and scared to fight back. Most of all, none of them could believe any of this was really happening.

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Artie Spiegelman and his wife are vacationing with friends in Vermont when they receive a phone call from Vladek, who they visited just days before at his bungalow in the Catskill Mountains. Mala Spiegelman had taken money from their bank account, hopped in the car, and driven to Florida, and Vladek is a mess, so Artie and his wife, Françoise, drive back to the Catskills to stay with him for the weekend. Vladek is a mess once they arrive. He thinks they should spend the rest of the summer with him and then move into his house in Queens. Art doesn’t like the sound of that idea. His constant complaining and criticisms is driving Artie crazy, and after an irrelevant argument about saving matches, Artie leaves the house to cool off, only to be approached by Vladek's neighbors who insist Artie must stay to take care of his father. Later in the day, Artie and Vladek take a walk to the Pines, a resort where Vladek likes to pretend he's a guest to play bingo and use the steam room. Vladek resumes his story. Vladek and Anja are separated upon their arrival at Auschwitz in 1944, but Vladek manages to stick close to Mr. Mandelbaum. They are forcibly showered, completely shaved, and tattooed with their six-digit serial numbers. Vladek is told by a Polish priest that his number, 175113, is a good omen because it adds up to the lucky number 18. The priest is certain Vladek will make it out of Auschwitz alive. This gives Vladek, who had been very depressed, somehow the hope to carry on. Mr. Mandelbaum, however, isn't doing well. His clothes are too big, one of his shoes is too small, and he has lost his spoon. He is freezing and hungry and miserable. Shortly after they arrive, the kapo of the unit recruits Vladek to tutor him in English. The kapo, who is a Polish prisoner, already knows German, but he thinks it would be valuable to know English if the Allies win the war. He is impressed with Vladek and treats him almost as a friend, making sure he is safe from the daily culling of the prisoners. He also gives Vladek all the food he can eat and a set of clothes that fit, including real leather shoes. Even Mr. Mandelbaum benefits from the kapo's generosity, but his change of fortune lasts only a few days, as he is soon sent to a work detail. Vladek never sees him again. Vladek stays in the quarantine block for two months under the kapo's protection, much longer than any other prisoner. When the kapo can hold Vladek no longer, he arranges for him to have one of the better work details in the tin shop.

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What does Spiegelman draw on his parents’ gravestone and why (names and dates are a given)?

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What does Spiegelman draw on his parents’ gravestone and why (names and dates are a given)?

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He draws a Jewish star on their gravestone, because he probably wanted people to know they were Jewish because he wasn’t afraid of what people might think. He also might’ve did it so people could know that they were holocaust survivors.

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Why does Artie use the photograph of Vladek at the end of the book? Why not put the picture at the beginning?

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Why does Artie use the photograph of Vladek at the end of the book? Why not put the picture at the beginning?

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He wanted people to get a better understanding of what Vladek went through before showing what he actually looked like while residing in the camps.

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In chapter , Vladek can’t remember things from the day before but can recall events from the Holocaust. What does this tell us about his experience?

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In chapter , Vladek can’t remember things from the day before but can recall events from the Holocaust. What does this tell us about his experience?

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The loss of memory from the day before tells me that the events during the holocaust had to have been so traumatizing that it was literally buried into his memory.

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What attitude of Vladek’s disgusts Franciose? Why do you think Spiegelman includes this incident? 

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What attitude of Vladek’s disgusts Franciose? Why do you think Spiegelman includes this incident? 

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The attitude that disgusts Franciose is that Vladek was being racist towards the black hitchhiker they picked up. She was mad because, out of all people she expected him to be considerate because of everything he has been through. Vladek was projecting stereotypes for black people onto the hitchhiker, which caused Franciose to be mad because he sounded exactly like a German Nazi to her. I think Artie Spiegelman includes this because, he wants to show that regardless of what a person has been through ignorance can and will always be present in someone’s life. He also wanted to show that his father looked like a hypocrite because, what he was doing was no better than what the Nazi’s did towards the Jews.

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How is Vladek able to survive being locked in the cattle car?

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How is Vladek able to survive being locked in the cattle car?

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Vladek ties his blanket to the cattle hook so he was able to sleep comfortably, he was also able get water from eating the snow off the roof of the cattle car and he was able to trade snow for sugar in order to survive.

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Artie shares with Vladek a story about Jews revolting and killing 3 SS guards. How does Vladek feel about the story? Explain why Vladek may have this type of reaction. (3-5 sentences)

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Artie shares with Vladek a story about Jews revolting and killing 3 SS guards. How does Vladek feel about the story? Explain why Vladek may have this type of reaction. (3-5 sentences)

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Vladek is blunt and truthful about what happened to the Jews that revolted. Vladek is nonchalant because, he knew better than to do something like that because of how the Germans would retaliate. Vladek wasn’t really fazed about the incident, he was just more shocked that Artie knew about it.

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1. Artie yells at Vladek, this is significant because Artie constantly speaks on how he has a hard time dealing with his father and his father is very persistent causing Artie to get annoyed at times.

2. Vladek planned to camp out with other prisoners, this is significant because he was constantly worried about surviving and since the war was coming to an end, he planned on doing everything it took to survive.

3. Vladek creates a hammock to sleep inside the cattle car, this is significant because it saved him from being crushed by the other prisoners and it allowed him to be able to eat snow so he wouldn’t be dehydrated. He was also able to trade snow for sugar as well.

4. Vladek was racist towards a black man, this is significant because it showed regardless of what someone goes through ignorance is present in everyone and it showed how stereotypes can affect someone’s view of another person.

5. Vladek caught typhus, this is significant because it was an epidemic in the camps but he was still thinking intelligently while being sick which saved his life.

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What is ironic about the last few panels of this chapter?

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What is ironic about the last few panels of this chapter?

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The ironic thing about the last few panels were that Artie had just judged the Jews for not fighting back and the German for killing the Jews, but yet he killed an innocent fly that couldn’t fight back which made him look a bit like a hypocrite.

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Summarize the war part of the story Vladek tells in this chapter. (3-5 sentences)

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Summarize the war part of the story Vladek tells in this chapter. (3-5 sentences)

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Vladek spoke about the Russians coming to help the Jews. The Germans were demolishing gas chambers and crematoriums, so that the Russians wouldn’t have evidence of what they did. The Russians were defeating the Germans, causing them to begin planning to flee.

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Describe pages 40- 47. How does Artie portray himself? What is the importance of this section? Be thoughtful! There is a lot to talk about with these pages. (5 sentences)

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Describe pages 40- 47. How does Artie portray himself? What is the importance of this section? Be thoughtful! There is a lot to talk about with these pages. (5 sentences)

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Artie portrays himself as a regular human, wearing a mouse masks. He also portrays himself as a child mouse, when it came to the reporters asking him lots of questions. The importance of this section is that regardless of how old he is, he still sometimes feels like a child because he doesn’t know how to deal or handle with certain situations. It seems that he is dealing with lots of built up emotion. One of the most common emotions in the sections seems to be guilt because, he basically exposed his fathers personal experience and history to the entire world which exposed him to ridicule by others. I think the importance is be there for the people who need you because, he felt bad for not being there for his father but he also compared everything to his father’s struggle.

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7.	What is symbolic about the names “Mauschwitz” and “The Catskills”?

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7.	What is symbolic about the names “Mauschwitz” and “The Catskills”?

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The symbolism behind the names are meant to dehumanize the places, and they are meant to display the entirety of these places and who belonged in them.

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How has Vladek changed in this chapter? List two specific examples of him displaying this new trait?

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How has Vladek changed in this chapter? List two specific examples of him displaying this new trait?

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Vladek is changing dramatically throughout this chapter because, he Is beginning to realize that he needed Mala since she left him. He is upset that she has left him because, he says “How could she do it, to leave a sick man like me alone” (2.1.15). Another way that Vladek is changing is because, he is becoming more leant with Artie and showing more emotion than he previously was. He constantly reassures Artie that he can ask anything he wants to know about his past, he quotes this by saying “Of course darling, to me you can asking anything” (2.1.22).

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Mandelbaum was well known in Sosnowiec for being a very wealthy man. He was elderly man. He was a complete mess while residing in “Mauschwitz” because his pants were too big so he had to hold them up everywhere he went, and he could only wear one shoe since the other one was to small.

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How does the Polish priest try to cheer Vladek up when he finds Vladek crying?

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How does the Polish priest try to cheer Vladek up when he finds Vladek crying?

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The polish priest cheered Vladek up by instilling some faith into him, by sharing the symbolic meaning of Vladek’s identification tattoo based on his faith and practice.

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How does Artie feel about his brother Richieu?

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How does Artie feel about his brother Richieu?

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He seems to have a bit of a jealous feeling towards his deceased brother because, his parents had portraits of him but none of Artie because like artie quoted “The photo never threw tantrums or got in any kind of trouble.” (2.1.13)

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1. Mala leaves Vladek and takes all his money, this is significant because Vladek has been constantly saying Mala just wanted his money so her running off makes sense but then again, she had other reasons as well.

2. Vladek gets sent to Auschwitz, this is significant because Vladek gives details about the procedure that he had to endure while being registered into the camp. It also shows the cruelty that the Jews had to endure.

3. Vladek saw the poles that betrayed him, this is significant because it shows the amount of trust that can be put into the German soldiers because they will use people then once they are done then they get rid of them.

4. Vladek meets a priest, this is significant because the priest gave Vladek hope that he would survive the extermination camp and it displays where Vladek acquired his religion and beliefs.

5Vladek translates, this is significant because he is deceiving the Germans for survival and it displays the intelligence Vladek has regardless of the situation.

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Look at the title page for chapter 1. What do you think the words and images foreshadow?

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Look at the title page for chapter 1. What do you think the words and images foreshadow?

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The title of the page makes me predict that the chapter will be based around Vladek’s time that he spent captured inside of Auschwitz, and he’ll tell us more about what he encountered during that period of time. The image foreshadows the same exact prediction that the title had.

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Novel- uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/maus-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history-by-art-spiegelman.pdf
Background Picture- “Art Spiegelman.” Julian Lawrence, www.julianlawrence.net/blog/art-spiegelman
Setting Map- Guffey, Dale. “The Ten Percent Presents Arbeit Macht Frei - Maus.” The Ten Percent Presents Arbeit Macht Frei - Maus -, 6 Feb. 2015, biffbampop.com/2015/02/06/arbeit-macht-frei-maus/.

Setting Map- Untitled Document, www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist151/holocaust/maus2.htm

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Hunter, Timeya. “The Malicious Encounters In Maus.” Padlet, 2 Apr. 2019, padlet.com/Timeya_Hunter/4qo4vqbxe0jm.

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Spiegelman, Art. “Maus-a-Survivors Tale My Father Bleeds History.” Uniteyouthdublin, Pantheon Books, uniteyouthdublin.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/maus-a-survivors-tale-my-father-bleeds-history-by-art-spiegelman.pdf