Courtesy of goodreads.com The Holocaust, an event that has been seared onto the memories and history books of the world, an event fanatically gruesome yet so diligently efficient it has overshadowed genocides that have wiped out several times more people than the mere 6 million victims of the Nazis. However, as time passes, the events from the 1930's and 40's continues to grow more and more distant to us as a society. As time moves on and survivors, along with their memories, die, the Holocaust will inevitably become just another catastrophe in the history of mankind. It will lose the human tragedy element of it, the guilt, the shame, the fear, the overbearing shadow of an event too big for its survivors and their descendants to even start to come to terms with; it risks becoming just another chapter in a textbook. Yet, to one man, American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the Holocaust will never be just another chapter. It is the defining chapter... yet he didn...
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