Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus” was about both his father Vladek’s experiences in the Holocaust and the difficult relationship they had with each other. - "Maus" is a twin story.

Vladek Spiegelman and Anja Spiegelman, Art's parents, were in the city of Sosnowiec, in Poland. The Nazis have hung four Jews publicly as punishment for trading on the black market.

The depictions of inherited trauma, like the Jewish mice of his graphic memoir Maus, are elegantly simple metaphors, and the ...

The subsequent, almost inescapable acclaim for "Maus" would in turn become another source of anguish for Spiegelman. From ...