The Holocaust was a period of persecution and mistreatment of Jews in Europe, but many remained religious, despite the fear of living in ghettos and concentration camps. There are numerous diverse perspectives in Art Spiegelman's Maus I and Magdalena Klein's "Often a Minute." Maus I is a graphic novel in which Vladek Spegielman recalls to his son, Art Spiegelman, what he witnessed as a Polish Jew in Poland during the Holocaust. Similarly, in the poem "Often a Minute," the author describes how Jews felt throughout the Holocaust. The theme of both books focuses on amazing perseverance and survival. Maus I and "Often a Minute" have similar concepts but different structures. Maus I, for example, features comic panels, and "Often a Minute" is written