Film Review: Maus By Vladeks Son Art Spiegelman

Despite the fact that all the information might not be as completely accurate as the others, the book "Maus" gives the information in the simplest and most engaging way. It also shows a lot considering it was based off a mans true survivor story. In the book “Maus” you are walked through the life of Vladek Spiegelman, a man who was once defending the ones he loved from the Germans but soon had to begin his escape from their grasps to protect the ones he loves. It sounded just like any other survivor story that you would hear but there’s something a little different about this one, the book is written by Vladeks son Art Spiegelman who decided to portray all the Jews in his book as mice and the Germans as cats which really pulled a lot of readers in and made the story a lot easier for readers to follow. Another good quality that the book had was that they didn’t focus specifically on what went on during the Holocaust, but also how Vladek handled it in present time and how it effected him and what the events of the Holocaust lead him to do with his life in the present.

The documentary shared a lot of emotions that the survivor had built up and I could definitely feel how much pain he went through while he was there and how horrifying it must have been. One thing that the documentary had that the book did not have was how the people in the concentration camps survived instead of how people survived outside of the camps. In the book a lot of it was about Vladek and his family being on the run from he Germans and preventing themselves from ending up in a concentration camp but the documentary was all about a man who went to a camp immediately with his family and what horrible things that he had to witness while in