Seventy years after the Holocaust, it’s hard to completely comprehend what it felt like for the people that lived through it, and how truly terrible it must have been. The book Maus provides the slightest glimpse at life back then for the Jews. The scene of Richieu’s death is the most noteworthy because it gives us a greater understanding of the people’s mindset during the Holocaust, and and shows a different side of it. For Tosha, and presumably many other Jews, the concentration camps that didn’t kill you were a fate worse than death, and the ones that did kill you immediately were the worst possible places to die. Just the possibility of being sent to one, not knowing whether or not she would be killed there, drove Tosha to kill not only