Biography of the young Swede who rescued over a hundred thousand Jews during World War II using special passports and working permits. He disappeared behind the Russian Army lines at the end of the war and his fate is still unknown.
A memoir about Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and with history itself. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
Examines the historical influences that led up to the Holocaust, showing that German anti-Semitism was not just a product of Nazi fanaticism, but was born of a racist ideology that has its roots in the Napoleonic era.
