The Complete Maus

Having seen many Holocaust films, this book provides an understanding of not just the gas chambers and concentration camps, but also Jew's behavior after the war. As survivors, they are impacted by PTSD, which affects their family and societal structure. There is no doubt that the characters provide a different perspective from the usual narratives. As an ambitious Polish Jew, this guy tries a variety of businesses and settles on marrying a rich Jewish girl in order to achieve upward mobility. The Nazis are sketched as cats, the Jews as mice, the Americans as dogs, and the Poles as pigs and they are highly relevant to the narrative, to illustrate the the Nazi campaign. It is more common for rich Jews to speak the language of the locals rather than Yiddish, and to name their children after Christian names rather than Yiddish.

Till 1920's wealthy Jews were into pan European nationalism and they settled in eastern Europe, east-central Europe and south-eastern Europe. Both the legal status of Jewish communities and their internal development differed considerably from region to region. In western Europe, the process of emancipand later they split into three parts, the ultraorthodox Haisdic jews were ultraorthodox, the blue collar jews were communist, and the rich jews were capitalistic, their lack of unity cost them dearly after WW1. When the Nazi party began blaming the rich jews for the loss of Germany in WW1. With these things, we can see how the socialist movement engineered anger towards capitalist Jews. Overall the story moves as any comic would without getting into these subtleties. Even so, it's obvious from what has happened that this was a catastrophic event when all odds were against them. It was through sheer will and survival instincts that protagonis survives the genocide.