Re: holocaust comic book
Linda Sasak (mrs4cent@CPORT.COM)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 20:38:19 -0700
Thank You I will find it and read them..Linda
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> From: ! <goldilox@MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU>
> To: MEMORIES@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
> Subject: holocaust comic book
> Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 7:49 AM
>
> 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.
> ~~
> ((((OO OO))))
> >
> <===>
> "What matters deafness of the ear,
> when the mind hears.
> The true deafness,
> the incurable deafness,
> is that of the mind."
>
> --Victor Hugo