Nonfiction Blog

The book that I am currently reading is called Maus by Art Spiegelman. The book is about a Jewish soldier name Vladek sharing his stories about the war and his experience during the Holocaust to his son who is working on an article about the event. The book starts off with Vladek sharing his experience as a war prisoner and when the war ended the holocaust was starting to commence. He also shares his stories on how he and his family were struggling to live during the holocaust from hiding to lack of rations. The stories also talks about the events during the holocaust and how people were sent to Auschwitz and were killed.

The thing that interested me was when Vladek was telling his nephew to go hide in the bunker but his nephew refused to hide and accepted his faith to go to Auschwitz. This interested me because most people would actually accept hiding in a bunker to avoid getting killed in Auschwitz, but the fact that his nephew refused to go with him is quiet strange considering he accepted his fate of death. Another thing that interested me is that one of his friends gained a Nazi's trust and anytime he catches anyone who knows the guy, he actually let's them go safe. This is interesting because most Nazis don't accept anyone's trust especially a Jewish person.

The thing that I learned in Maus is that most Jews tend to spend most of their time building bunkers to avoid being sent to Auschwitz. Another thing that I learned is that some Jewish officers are actually forced to work with the Nazi's like finding Jews hiding and searching for missing people and such, there are even officers who transport Jews to Auschwitz which is quiet shocking. The thing that I wouldn't forget is that people suffer with their families during the holocaust and all the work people put into to try and avoid places like these.

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