Mr. Day’s Honors English 10 class has been reading and discussing Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Students selected individual pages from the graphic novel to re-write as if it were from a regular novel, translating the images into words. The graphic novel shows the author interviewing his father, a Holocaust survivor. In the depiction of his father’s experiences, Spiegelman depicts the Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Polish people as pigs. Mr. Day has invited University of Baltimore professor Sarah Federman, author of the book The Last Train to Auschwitz, which publishes in April, to share her research on the French resistance and a lawsuit against the French Metro (SNCF) for its role in deporting Jews to concentration camps.
