Art Spiegelman wrote Maus as a way to tell his father's survival of the Holocaust Memorial. While presented in a comic form the story is serious, sad, and poignant. Each animal that represents a nationality was carefully chosen. For instance The Americans are dogs, French are Frogs, Germans are Cats, Polish are pigs and the Jews were mice. Part of that was a play on the propaganda the Germans had against the Jews by saying they were rodents. Mickey Mouse was even dismissed because of the fact it was a mouse and Jewish. I think all should read Maus and read about the Holocaust so that history does not repeat itself.
www.ushmm.org Is the link to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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