Response to Maus by Art Spiegelman.

       The graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman is about a jewish survivor from Hitlers Europe, Vladek Spiegelman and his son, Art, a cartoonist as they discuss Vladeks and his wife, Anjas survival from World War One. In the boo, they way that the Nazis treated Jews was completely  unethical.

       Soldiers as said by Vldaeks father "Made us sing prayers while they laughed and beat us... and before letting us go, they cut off our beards." This is cruelty, they where practically laughing at their religion and forcing them to go against their culture (the long beards).

       The children where abused. They where separated from their families. As stated in the book most of the kids where around 2 or 3 years old. In the book, when this was happening and the children screamed, the soldiers swinged them from the legs against the wall until they could no longer scream.

       They separated families, from unable to work and the "useful" Jews. They first separated the elderly promising they will keep them in safe homes but instead gassed them in concentration camps. They then separated families with too many kids or Jews without work cards. Most Jews where put in concentration camps anyways and killed. 

       All in all, everything that was done to the Jewish was really harsh and cruel. I was filled with anger when I read how miserable people where and the way they were horribly treated.