Jeffrey Carey’s Reviews > Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began > Status Update

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.

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!

Another gamble. The Nazis could have killed him for being unfit to work, yet he survived.

How many lives that little stop must have saved, even though they had to get back on the train!

A printing error cut off the rightmost letters from this page. Somehow it works in context.

Always a gamble making deals with fascists, whether they listen to their humanity or their orders. For him, it didn’t pay off.