holocaust comic book
! (goldilox@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:49:17 -0400
A comic book artist named Art Spiegelman did a two part comic book (more
book size than comics) on the holocaust called MAUS. Despite the fact it is
all in comic book style, it is an amazingly vivid account of the holocaust
through the eyes of Spiegelman's father who was a Jew in Poland, lived in
the Holocaust Ghettoes, tried to escape the Nazis through hiding in the
countryside, was captured and sent to a couple concentration camps and then
actually participated in the dismantling of the "showers" at one of the
camps in the Nazi attempt to cover up and destroy the camps before the
liberation armies saw them. Maybe not the best way to convince unbelievers
as it is a true comic book with the Jews represented as mice, the Nazis as
cats, and the American liberators as dogs, but despite this seeming ignominy
of treatment, it is a truly moving and potent description of events in the
Holocaust. I do not normally read comics and at the time I found these, I
had no particular interest in the Holocaust, yet I could not stop reading
these until the very end, due to the personal detail included. It was the
thing that piqued my interest. Later I found the few actual phtographs by
Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Capra, and others, of the camps as found by
the liberation forces. Very striking photographs, and not be discounted in
understanding the tragedy. ...Rhett M.
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