Status Updates From Maus, tome II: Un survivant...

As someone who’s neither Jewish nor Isreali, I have no authority to declare someone ḥasidei ummot ha'olam (“Righteous Among the Nations”) but even so, Mancie sounds like she’d fit the bill.

Damn it, Vladek…

Perhaps Vladek’s clean shirt allowed the Frenchman to survive.
On another note, this page also reminds me of the Vietnamese(?) Christian I gave English composition lessons to at the library. Looking back, I should have given him my address so we could stay in touch. I pray he’s doing well.

Mass murder by medical neglect. As it was with the Nazis, so it is with ICE.

Whenever I see moments like this, I’m torn between admiring those whose cleverness and generosity persisted in the camps, and horror at the circumstances that made those qualities necessary.

As in Exodus, a frog becomes an agent of deliverance!