Prisoner number 175113

The widely acclaimed «Maus: A Survivor's Tale» is about Vladek Spiegelman, Auschwitz prisoner number 175113. Maus was created by Vladek's son, Art Spiegelman, and features not just Vladeks experiences during the Second World War, but also the relationship between Vladek and Art in the 1970s and early 1980s. A newspaper from Pomerania, Germany wrote the following in the mid-1930s:

Mickey Mouse is the most miserable ideal ever revealed....Healthy emotions tell every independent young man and every honorable youth that the dirty filth-covered vermin, the greatest bacteria carrier in the animal kingdom, cannot be the ideal type of animal....Away with Jewish brutalization of the people! Down with Mickey Mouse! Wear the Swastika Cross!

Trying to depict the Holocaust in a comics book is probably not easy, and Art Spiegelman spent more than a decade drawing it. The result, however, was one of very few comics that should be on the curriculum for «Living in a society 101».