Art Spiegelman

Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

Wirklich faszinierend. Kann ich nur empfehlen. Es gibt einem einen sehr realitätsnahen Eindruck davon, wie das gewesen sein muss. Es ist quasi eine Verbildlichung von den Erzählungen eines Zeitzeugen. Sehr düster und mitnehmend, aber für die Darstellung des Holocaust ist das vermutlich die einzig wahre Möglichkeit.

This book is good for students at an advanced level. It tells the story of someone who went through the Holocaust and shows how people survived during that time in history. People from different countries are represented as various animals. For example, Jews are portrayed as mice, and Nazis are portrayed as predatory cats. I would introduce this book to my classroom as a read-aloud to guide and help my students through the important themes and contexts throughout this story.

This is the second book that Art Spiegelman wrote. It follows the story of the first one where Art's father, Vladek, recounts his experience in the holocaust. The second book goes through more of how Vladek survived in Auschwitz. The story also builds on Art's relationship with his father and relating a lot of the things he does to surviving the holocaust. I would use this book in a high school classroom because it has more language and more mature themes than the first book. (135 pages).