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Race In The Holocaust

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Race is seen throughout this entire novel. The Holocaust is a sensitive and horrifying time in history for the Jewish community. It recognizes weakness, loss, and death. Starting of the novel, the setting seems relaxing and hopeful. The narrator mentions the German Nazi, but it does not interfere with the story. When Vladek is taking Anja to the sanitarium, it introduces “the beginning of 1938-before the war-hanging high in the center of town, it was a Nazi flag” (Spiegelman 23). After Vladek returns from war, the German troops begin to invade Poland. Graphic scenes such as “Haskel took from me Father-in-Law’s jewels. But, finally, he didn’t help them. On Wednesday the vans came. Anja and I saw her father at the window. He was tearing his hair
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