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     In 1986, a graphic novel named "Maus" was published by Art Spiegelman, about Jewish lives being drastically changed by the Nazis who hunted them down. More specifically, it was about Spiegelman's father's experiences.

     Vladek, Art's father, was a Polish Jew who was being searched for by the Nazis, as they wanted to murder him. The characters in the novel are portrayed as different animals, Jews are depicted as mice, hence the name "Maus", and Nazis as cats. Other Polish citizens are depicted as pigs. Vladek made a deal with some smugglers to get brought away from Poland to Hungary via train, which worried his wife. She believed that it could be a trap, tricking them into landing in the hands of the Nazis. However, Spiegelmen proceeds with the deal, and so it is carried out. They board the train, but are captured by Nazis, and brought to a prison in the town where they lived. There, they are sent to be killed in Auschwitz, a concentration camp built to hold thousands of Jews, and prepared to kill millions.

     Sometimes, the events in the book are interrupted, such as when Art asks Vladek what happened to Abraham, his friend who too had been taken by the smugglers and boarded the train.

     The book was written from an interview Art held with his father, and later he converted the stories Vladek told to book form. The book better informed millions about Jewish lives during the Holocaust, and reminds people to never let a tragic event like this ever happen again.