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Part 1, Chapter 4. When he brings up the subject later, though, he finds that Anja and her parents are violently opposed to the idea of surrendering Richieu into the care Richieu was not so lucky. In the end, Vladek says, he and Anja had to send Richieu away to hide anyway.

He begins to tell the story — Artie asks what Anja was doing during this time. She spent a lot of time writing in her diaries, Vladek, Anja , and Richieu are sent to the right — the good side of the stadium, for Mala, who knew Vladek and Anja before the war and lived in Sosnowiec herself, says the Nazis took her mother away Mala, confused, follows him. Part 1, Chapter 5. Vladek found her in the bathtub, Artie writes, with Vladek comes inside, and Artie brings The comic brought up painful memories of Anja , he says — but, of course, he is always thinking of Anja anyway.

Mala points Each day, they are marched into Sosnowiec to work in German shops: Anja and Tosha in a clothing factory, he and Lolek in a carpentry shop. By this In the summer of , Vladek and the Zylberberg family move houses. He and Anja , Mr. Zylberberg, and Lolek are the only ones left. They build another bunker, Vladek bribes Haskel with a diamond ring.

Haskel says he can get Vladek, Anja , and Lolek out of the ghetto, but that it will be too conspicuous if he Lolek refuses to hide. With Lolek gone, Anja becomes hysterical. Anja and Vladek hide in the bunker with several others. There is almost no food, and Part 1, Chapter 6.

Artie wonders whether it was the war that Artie asks Vladek to resume his story in , when he and Anja left Srodula.

Vladek talks: The two of them walk toward Sosnowiec under the cover of He wants to get a feel for conditions, though Anja is fearful of what might happen to him. As when he convinced the train conductor Kawka who, some of the young men suggest, might be willing to hide him and Anja in exchange for payment. Vladek and Anja move into Mrs. Her little boy loves Anja , who plays games with him and tutors him in German.

Things in the house are In the morning, they return to Mrs Just a day or two after Mrs. She greets him warmly, Back at Mrs. They are safe with Mrs When he arrives at the house Anja is terrified — she is convinced the smugglers have arranged some kind of trick, and Artie becomes upset and yells at his father, saying that they would have had valuable information in them. At the beginning of Book Two, while Artie is staying with friends in Vermont, he receives a call from Vladek: Mala has left him and taken some of their shared valuables.

Fearing that he will be responsible for taking care of his father, Artie goes to visit him in New York. Vladek continues his story and describes the terrible conditions in Auschwitz. While working there, he uses his knowledge of trade skills to remain valuable and avoid execution.

He learns that Anja is in the secondary camp, Auschwitz Birkenau, and arranges to do some repairs there so that he can see her. After hoarding the few resources available, Vladek bribes some of the Nazi guards to have Anja relocated to his camp to work in the munitions shop.

Vladek continues his story, describing the various ways that he used his skills and resourcefulness to help himself and Anja survive at Auschwitz. As the Russian army closes in on Auschwitz, Vladek is tasked with dismantling the gas chambers. All of the prisoners are eventually evacuated and relocated to Dachau, a camp in Germany. The incoming Jews are stripped of their clothing and possessions and given ill-fitting prison uniforms and shoes to wear. Their heads are shaved, and their forearms are tattooed with identification numbers.

Vladek sees Abraham, who reveals that he was forced to write his earlier letter. He also sees the Polish smugglers who betrayed him and Anja; the Gestapo arrested them when they were no longer of value. A kapo a Polish prisoner assigned to supervise other prisoners forces everyone in the barracks to do grueling exercises all day, and some prisoners die of exhaustion. When one of the kapos asks which of the prisoners knows both Polish and English, Vladek volunteers to give the man private English lessons.

In return, the kapo tells Vladek that when the S. Vladek does as he is told and remains safe, along with Mandelbaum. He explains that he wants to know English in case the Allies win the war. After the lesson, the kapo lets Vladek choose better clothes and leather shoes from the storeroom, as well as a separate set of shoes, a spoon, and a belt for Mandelbaum. Eventually, Mandlebaum is chosen for work detail, and Vladek never sees him again.

The kapo continues to keep Vladek safe and adds him to the crew that fixes roofs in the camp. Back in the present, Vladek wraps his story for the time being, and leads Artie to a hotel patio, avoiding the hotel security. Vladek tells Artie that he often sneaks onto the hotel for dancing lessons or games of bingo.

This chapter begins with Artie sitting behind a drafting table; he is illustrated as a human wearing a mouse mask. He states that Vladek died of heart failure in August of He then lists many significant dates in no apparent order:.

September , the first part of Maus was published and was extremely successful. He grows smaller with each panel, eventually turning into a small child. After the others leave, the child version of Artie goes to his psychiatrist, Pavel, who is a Czech Jew and an Auschwitz survivor.

Pictured as a young child, Artie sits and talks to his psychiatrist, Pavel, about Vladek. He expresses his feeling that no matter how successful he is, everything he does seems insignificant compared to surviving Auschwitz. When Artie asks if Pavel feels any guilt for surviving Auschwitz, Pavel says that he only feels sadness. Pavel tells him what tools to draw in the tin shop, and Artie leaves.

In the next scene, an adult Artie sits at his drafting table and listens to a conversation he recorded with his father when they were in the Catskills.

As his father rants about Mala on the tape, Artie shrinks to the child version of himself again. He recalls the manager of the tin shop, a Russian Jew named Yidl. As a communist, Yidl dislikes Vladek and calls him a capitalist, because Vladek once owned factories.

One of the other tin workers tells Vladek that Yidl likes presents, so Vladek trades clothes for food and brings it to Yidl to gain favor. Vladek notes that Yidl was greedy, always taking as much food as he could. Since there was very little food for the normal prisoners, many of them starved. Vladek recalls meeting Mancie, a female prisoner from Birkenau who oversaw a work crew of other women.

He tells her about Anja, and Mancie later reports that while Anja is struggling mentally and physically, she is alive and is relieved to hear from Vladek. When the S. Vladek sees Anja several times at Birkenau, but only in passing. He tells her to keep food for herself and not share with her friends. When he is caught talking to Anja on his way to fix a roof, a guard grabs Vladek and beats him brutally. Vladek is sent to the camp hospital, which serves only to condemn weak and injured prisoners to death.

Vladek says that he was twice inspected by Dr. Mengele but was passed over for dreaded selection and returned to his barracks. As Yidl expects constant gifts, Vladek arranges to be a shoemaker. He works in a small room, away from the main shoe shop. When asked to repair an S.

The officer is so pleased that he gives Vladek a whole sausage. Vladek discovers that new buildings are being built to house women from Birkenau. Vladek asks the kapo he knows if it would be possible to have Anja transferred, but the kapo tells him it would cost a fortune in bribes. Vladek finds out that the bribe would cost cigarettes and a bottle of vodka which is worth cigarettes. Vladek eventually saves enough to pay the bribe, and Anja is transferred to his camp and given a work assignment in a munitions shop.

While they can only see each other briefly and through an electric fence, they are relieved to be near one another. As he loses more and more weight, he begins to worry that he will be chosen for the gas chamber. Vladek is eventually reassigned to the tin shop. As the Russians begin to invade Poland, Vladek and others are ordered to dismantle the gas chambers; the Nazis hope to rebuild them in Germany and conceal what they had done in Auschwitz. While the prisoners are dismantling the gas chambers, Vladek meets a man who carries corpses from the gas chamber to the ovens, and the man tells Vladek about all of the terrible things he has seen.

Vladek explains that not only were all of the prisoners starving and terrified, but the Nazis would murder prisoners for every rebellious one, effectively destroying their will to resist. Vladek says that ever since the war, he hates to waste food. Vladek explains: a few Vladek explains that, in the months after the He goes on with his story: after Haskel He sits on a stoop to catch his breath, and tells Artie that Miloch survived the war and moved to Australia with his wife. He reveals that Vladek and Artie resume walking.

Vladek describes the last months of the Germans are clearing out Srodula, Vladek and Artie have walked to the local bank. Vladek asks the teller — an American woman, with Mala would be furious if Artie inherited the diamond ring, Vladek says — she is constantly badgering him to change his Part 1, Chapter 6.

When Artie arrives at the house for his next visit with Vladek, he finds Mala crying at Vladek comes in from watering the garden. Artie , changing the subject quickly, tells Vladek that he has begun sketching pages for his book, Artie asks Vladek to resume his story in , when he and Anja left Srodula.

For a long Vladek hesitates, then Part 2, Chapter 1. It is summer. Artie is doodling outside, trying to decide Vladek just called, one As they drive, Artie Artie wonders aloud whether he and Richieu would get along, if Richieu had survived the war Artie remembers a few more details of his childhood obsession with the Holocaust: his nightmares about Vladek has been waiting up for He opens the curtains and rouses Artie , who fumbles to get dressed as Artie lights a cigarette, and Vladek berates him for using a wood match.

He gets free Vladek appears in the yard outside the bungalow, and asks Artie to come inside and help him organize his bank papers. A few hours later they As they walk, Artie asks Vladek what he plans to do now that Mala is gone. Vladek says he Artie has brought his tape recorder on the walk, and asks Vladek whether they can talk Vladek and Artie come to a hotel called The Pines. Part 2, Chapter 2. The first panel of the chapter shows Artie bent over a drawing table.

The panel shows him in profile, and only his head As Artie recites his list of dates, the panels zoom out to capture more of his body As they bombard him with questions, Artie begins to shrink in The reporters vanish, and Artie — still as small as a toddler — sits alone in his chair.

He tells Pavel opens the door in a mouse mask — as with Artie and the reporters, his human head is visible in profile. Artie , still tiny, sits in Pavel asks whether Artie admires Vladek for surviving. Artie admits that he does — though Vladek was luckier than Artie tells Pavel he has been struggling to imagine Auschwitz.

He does not know what it Back at his drawing table, Artie turns on the tape of his interview with Vladek.

The tape begins with the two Nobody could say whether this man was really a German, Vladek tells Artie — regardless of his nationality, though, the Germans considered him a Jew and treated him Artie asks about Anja. Vladek explains that Anja was sent to Birkenau, a much bigger camp Vladek says Staying with Vladek has left them exhausted,