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I enjoyed this book. I was never a comic book reader but, this one I was actually hooked and paid much detail to. I feel like I have a deeper understanding of how it was like for the Jews. It was horrendous and brutal. Even the survivors don't feel like they have survived. Vladek had to take many medications after and was ill for many years after. It stays with you forever.

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Art Speigelman illustrated the characters and story through the comic book. Something that many people criticized because they believed it wouldn't be taken seriously. but it did the opposite. Not only does the book narrate the horrors of the concentration camps located in Poland, it also displays the enormous difficulties of second generation Holocaust survivors to find a way to come to terms with the horrendous plight of their ancestors.It was a real eye opener and I enjoyed reading it.

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Vladek and Anja hide at Mrs. kawka's house and she told them that they must never tell anyone about this or that they will all die.

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Anja writes to Vladek and tells him how much she misses him and whats happening and she wants to see him.

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Vladek talks about how Mandelbaum suffered and how his clothes didn't even fit him well.

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Vladek tells art about the horrendous things the germans did to kill the jews. From gas chambers to burying them alive and the disposing of bodies.

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Anja is suffering and feeling depressed over the loss of her son and home. Vladek tells her to stay strong and that he is with her.

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The priest encounters vladek and tells him that he has a lucky number and that gave vladek hope of getting out of there.

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They didn't get to choose what to wear, all of them had to wear the jail like clothes that were thrown at them. and sometimes they wouldn't even be the right size but you had to wear them or you would be beaten.

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Vladek sees the people he once knew or grew up with dying and one by one killed or being taken to Auschwitz.

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Tosha decides to poison herself and the children including Richeau because she doesn't want them to suffer during the Holocaust.

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Mancie is a female Hungarian Jew at Birkenau with Anja, and has higher status as a result of an affair with S.S. guard. She acts as a go-between for Vladek and his wife, carrying notes and food.

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Abraham is Mandelbaum's cousin. He agrees to accompany the smugglers, and promises to write Mandelbaum and Vladek if he arrives safely in Hungary.

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Before the war, Mandelbaum owned a pastry store in Sosnowiec where Vladek and Anja often shopped. Vladek sees him again while meeting with the smugglers who will take him to Hungary.

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Mrs. Kawka is the owner of a small farm on the outskirts of Sosnowiec, and for a price she allows Vladek and Anja to hide in her barn. Mrs. Kawka is the person who tells Vladek about the smugglers who can take him to Hungary.

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Haskel is Vladek's cousin, and chief of the Jewish Police in the Srodula ghetto. Haskel ultimately survives the war, and Vladek sends him packages for some time afterwards.

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A former customer of Vladek's from before the war. The two meet again after the German occupation and begin conducting business on the Sosnowiec black market.

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Tosha is Anja's older sister. The Germans slaughter the Jewish Council and begin to evacuate the Jews of Zawiercie to the camps. Rather than be sent to the gas chambers, Tosha poisons herself, her daughter, Herman's daughter Lonia, and Vladek's son Richieu.

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Anja's father. Before the war, he is a wealthy manufacturer who owns a hosiery factory. When Vladek and Anja are married, he provides Vladek with a factory of his own. He survives with his family in German-occupied Poland, until the family is captured and sent to await transport to Auschwitz.

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Art's wife. She is French and converted to Judaism in preparation for their marriage to please Vladek. She is intelligent, kind, and opinionated, and their relationship is strong. She plays a minor role in the story also

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Richieu is Vladek and Anja's first child, born in Poland in 1937. Tosha poisons herself and the children under her care, including Richieu. After his death, Vladek and Anja keep a photograph of their first child hanging on the wall of their bedroom, and Art comes to feel a sense of sibling rivalry with his "ghost brother."

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Mala, also a Holocaust survivor, is Vladek’s second wife; she knew Vladek and Anja before the war. She and Vladek were always arguing over money.

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Anja is Art's mother and Vladek's first wife. The couple meets in Poland while Vladek is in a long-term relationship with another woman, Lucia Greenberg. Anja goes into a depression after her first son Richeau dies.

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Art Spiegelman is the author and narrator of Maus, and also one of the story's main characters. Born in Stockholm after the Holocaust, he is the only surviving child of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman.

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Art Spiegelman "Co-Mixes" It Up at the Jewish Museum - StageBuddy.com

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Art Spiegelman "Co-Mixes" It Up at the Jewish Museum - StageBuddy.com

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A friend of Vladek's family in Poland. When Vladek is a prisoner of war, Orbach claims him as a cousin, so that Vladek is released into his custody and eventually returns home to Sosnowiec.

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Vladek is Art Speigelman's father. He grew up in pre war Poland and tells Art about his experience in the Holocaust.