![]() ![]() He and Anja’s family survive a mass inspection to send the elderly and large families to concentration camps, but it claims his father and sister. Vladek takes black-market jobs and secures work papers to avoid both the Nazis and the Jewish authorities that cooperate with them. Upon release, Vladek sneaks back into German-controlled territory to reunite with Anja and her family. When the Nazis invade Poland, Vladek reluctantly fights on the frontlines before facing capture and internment in a POW camp that purposely places Jewish prisoners in squalid conditions. As the couple have a child, Richieu, and treat Anja’s severe depression, Nazi Germany ignites a new wave of anti-Semitism throughout Europe. ![]() In the 1930s Vladek is a talented, multilingual salesman who weds the intelligent Anja Zylberberg. Over several years cartoonist Art Spiegelman interviews his aging Jewish father, Vladek, to record his survival in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, including roughly 10 months in the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp (for this guide, “Spiegelman” refers to the author, while “Art” refers to his presentation of himself in the text). ![]()
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