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This time I picked up a book from my Eighth Grade daughter for a change. She is reading it as it comes under her school reading curriculum. It is a Graphic novel written by Art Spiegelman. It is a non-fiction book. The Author collected these information from his father who was a Holocaust Survivor from Poland. The story starts at Queens, New York and then transports you to Poland where Vladek starts his life as a textile business man. He meets his future wife and gets married. Their Luxurious life changes upside down once Germany invades Poland. Vladek spends his life in camps as a war prisoner and then somehow manages to reunite with his family. The real bad time starts after that. In the German occupied Poland the Spiegelman family shatter into pieces and dragged to streets. Then they hide into barns and garbage shuts, bribe Polish authorities just to avoid gas chambers and keep themselves alive. The Author gives accurate information of...