Maus is a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that is broken into two volumes, Volume I and Volume II. The book details the life of Art Spiegelman’s father, named Vladek who was a Jewish mouse during WW2 in Europe while Hitler was in total power. The characters in this story are portrayed as animals, the Jews are mice and the Nazis are cats. In the beginning of Volume I, Art goes to visit his father to hang out and ask him questions for the book that he is writing about his dad. We see Vladek’s early years, he falls in love and eventually marries. Vladek’s marriage doesn’t seem to be working out as he discovers that his wife, named Anja has been in contact with communists. Anja gets sick later and Vladek has to take her to a hospital, where he sees his first Nazi swastika flag. After this, Vladek gets drafted to the Polish army to fight on the frontlines with a group of other Jews. He later gets captured and taken as a prisoner of war by the Nazis and since he is Jewish, he is treated much worse than the other prisoners, such as being forced to sleep in tents and is given less food. He is transported to a Nazi work camp, while the living conditions are better, they are forced to dig the entire day. The Nazis take Vladek and the other Jews on a train back to Poland, but they don’t drop them off at their desired location, so Vladek has to find another way back home. He succeeds and his family is happy to see him after months. Vladek owned a factory and the Nazis seized it, so now he has no job. Later, the Nazis start to round up Jews and send them on trains to the concentration camps. Vladek is lucky and goes to a ghetto at first, then he is relocated to a village called Srodula. This place becomes the Jews permanent ghetto. The Nazis would come to this place and try to round up Jews, however Vladek and his wife had a very good hiding spot where no one could find them. Vladek and his wife bounce around from one hiding spot to the next, but they are eventually caught and taken to Auschwitz.