Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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A tale of a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father’s tale and history itself.Amazon.com Review
Some past events simply beggar any attempt at description–the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to clarify the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a past perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and ’70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that tale into a graphic novel. By portraying a right tale of the Holocaust in comic form–the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs–Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so regularly shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither simple nor pleasant. But, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a pleased young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna’s life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is place into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come–in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. –Michael Gerber
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This is as terrible, as the 1st Maus: Horribly GRAPHIC, EXREMELY CRUDE and INSENSITIVE to the “OTHER” victims of the holocaust. Spiegleman shows absolutely “no” sympathy or sensitivity to the 3 million Polish-Catholics that were killed by the Germans. Adding insult to injury, he describes the Poles in a very negative and hurtful manner, when in fact the Poles themselves lost everything. Poles, as well as Jews, lost their homes. Poles, as well as Jews, came home to homes that were piles of rubble. There are so many better vechicles out there to teach about this. This is the last one to use, as it seriously offends many innocent students whose parents and grandparents also suffered, died and lost everything in the Forgotten Holocaust. Better books are: Sybille Steinbacher’s “Auschwitz. Steinbachers book gets the job done lacking all the grusome graphics and brassy demeaning that is in Maus. Richard Lukas’ “The Forgoten Holocaust; Poles Under Nazi-Occupation,” and “Did The Children Weep: The suffering of Polish & Jewish children in the holocaust.” After reading the latter one by Lukas, you’ll never go anywhere near a Maus book again! “Did The Children Weep,” will be a wake-up call – unless you are inhumane. Lukas, in both book, talks, OBJECTIVLY about “all” who suffered, lacking the sick graphics and personal attacks that maus has. Michael Marrus’ “The Holocaust in History.” Marrus, like Steinbacher and Lukas is controlled, scholarly and informative – Spiegleman is not. These 3 books will clarify and teach you something, unlike Maus, that only teaches hateful generalizations through stereotyping and is grusomly graphic. Don’t be fooled by the hype. Maus gets an F- for humanity. TEACHERS, PLEASE, BE TEACHERS!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I marvel what would the Jewish circles say if somebody published today a comic book with Jews depicted as, say, rats (really, the Nazis have already done that…)? “Maus” shows the Poles as pigs, and it does that in the context of over 220 trees (the largest national group) planted in Jerusalem in memory of the righteous Poles who saved Jews during the war at the risk of their own and their families’ lives. Now the descendants of the saved ones pay the Polish people back…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I object to the portrayal of Poles as pigs in this cartoon. It is demeaning and insulting. How would the Jewish leader, and Jewish readers, feel if the genocide of Jews during the Holocaust was shown, in a well loved comic strip, as Jewish pigs being sent to a giant slaughterhouse? The answer is rather obvious. So why did the leader choose pigs to depict Poles? Did he lack the social intelligence of the average 5-year ancient, or does he harbor malevolence towards Poles? Oh, I make an apology for my silly sentiments, because I forgot the obvious answer: The Poles are not deemed a politically-right victim group, by the liberal elites, so it is perfectly OK to ridicule and demean them, even in widely-used educational material. After all, everyone in the US is equal, but some are more equal than others.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It’s sad but right–in more ways than one. Yes it’s won awards and rightfully so, but if you only ever read one comic book in your entire life, Maus dosn’t have to be it. The tale is intense and vital–and it’s nothing you can’t read in Night and the art leaves a lot to be desired. I reflect people who say they like comics and have only ever read Maus are not unlike people who say they are really in to philosphy and they’ve only read the Tao of Pooh.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This comic uses animals to represent different ethic groups: The cats are the Germans, and the Jews are mice. So far, so excellent. Neither cats nor mice carry any strong pejorative implications. Then come the Poles–represented by pigs. This is open bigotry which would not be tolerated by any additional nationality. But the Poles are neither politically, economically, nor militarily powerful, and so evidently it is OK to smear them. And so this comic does in its plot in yet another way: The Polish pigs are depicted as Kapos–persons concentration camp prisoners whose role it was to serve the German masters by torturing the additional inmates. But even this is historically inaccurate: Seldom if ever were Poles kapos. The actual kapos, at least in Auschwitz, were largely if not entirely German common criminals, German Communists, German socialists, etc. It was these German kapos who brutalized the captive Polish priests, Polish underground leaders, and then the Jewish inmates of Auschwitz. Are the inaccuracies and virulent anti-Polish slant of this well loved comic accidental, or are they agenda-driven?
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5