This image comes from MetaMaus, a book published in 2011 commemorating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Maus I. The image on the left shows the members of Vladek Speigelman's family in 1939. The the blanks in the image on the right indicate victims of The Holocaust when the war ended in 1945.
For more information about MetaMaus by Art Speigelman, you can read the New York Times review.
This resource contains more than 850 articles about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and current-day mass atrocities in 19 languages, including:
• An Introduction to the Holocaust
• Nazi Propaganda
• Antisemitism
• Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution
Murder on an industrial scale
The discovery of Nazi concentration camps towards the end of WW2 revealed the full horror of Hitler's plans to exterminate Europe's Jews and other minorities. The media reports of the systematic slaughter shocked the world.
What happened in Germany to lead to these events? And how much was known about the mass murders during the years that led to one of the darkest chapters of the 20th Century?
Read more here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/the-holocaust-year-by-year/zkxwgwx
Hans Van Gelder was born in 1933 in Amsterdam , the only child of Isidore and Florie Jacobson. In the first years of German occupation, her father was sent to a labor camp. Hans and her mother met Henny Krabbé, who was active in the Dutch underground, and the decision was made that Hans live with Henny and her daughter Karen. The three developed a strong family-like bond which lasted for many years. Hans later discovered that her father had been sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered during a death march. Hans’s mother was also captured and taken to Auschwitz, but she survived, returning to Amsterdam. She later remarried and moved to Uruguay. Hans married Aron in 1957 and the two have had four children.
This and many other survivors' testimony is documented at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center site.