Compelling Story of Maus

I have read several stories about the Halocaust, but none as compelling as Art Spiegelman's story of Maus. The fact that the story is in a comic form, gave me a picture at every point that he was talking about. He went from living a luxiourous life, owning his own factory to just trying to survive by hiding jewlery in baby's carriage. Life was very for Spiegelman in that he sometimes did not have money to buy food. His family was forced to live in two small rooms.

While reading the story I was amazed at his survival tricks by selling goods to get money for food. The fact that he went from something to nothing in almost an instant. The cruelty of the Germans and how they made the Jews work for them. Spiegelman recalls this story as if it happened yesterday, maybe because the life that he went through was unforgetable.

When you read about the Haulocaust, you never get a good reaction from the story, its mostly violence after more violence. In Spiegelman's story, you can't help but feel sympathy for this man, that he had to bare witness to this, I know I did. At the same time its amazing that he survive this and is able to give his experience of life in Poland during the 1940s.