Life Is Beautiful Holocaust

There are many novels and films that have be created to portray the stories of Holocaust victims, two examples being the film Life is Beautiful and the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II. Life is Beautiful tells the story of Guido, a Jewish man in Italy before the war. He fell in love with Dora, a beautiful teacher, and eventually married her and had a son, Giosue. As the Nazis took over, Guido, Dora and Giosue were taken to a concentration camp, where Guido does everything he can to keep his family alive. Maus I and II are graphic novels portraying the true story of a survivor written by his son. They tell the story of Vladek and Anja, in Poland before the war when they fell in love and had a son, Richieu. It tells their journey through the ghettos and Auschwitz to their freedom. As they deal with the hardships from the Nazis, Vladek does whatever it takes to protect his
Both fathers were willing to do anything to keep their sons safe. They did everything, from sending them off to hide with another family to telling them the whole thing was a game and even sneaking them into Nazi officials' dinner parties. They also did anything to comfort their wives, even while separated in the camps. In Life is Beautiful, Guido puts himself in danger to send messages over the loudspeaker and even plays Dora's favorite song out the window for everyone to hear. On pages 56 and 57 of Maus, Spiegelman shows how Vladek gets a job repairing the roofs of the women's camp, just to see his wife. He gets caught for this and even takes a beating for it. On page 63, Spiegleman shows that Vladek fixed The shoes of Anja's Kapo, just so Anja could get a job she could handle. During these horrible times both Vladek and Guido only thought of their wives and children. They put their families first and cared only about keeping them