Today is Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the 6 million Jews murdered in the holocaust. This day as always been a hard one for me, all four of my grandparents are holocaust survivors and I always felt it is essential for me to remember and learn what happened there, to keep my family history alive. Since moving to NYC life has taken a different pace and sometimes just dealing with day to day issues turns me off track and makes me forgetful… So I would like to recommend a book: MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman. MAUS (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer prize) MAUS is a graphic novel telling the story of the author’s father’s survival of the Holocaust. It is also the tale of Spiegelman’s strained relationship with his father, and his attempt to come to terms with his dad, himself, and the truths of the Holocaust. In the books mice are Jews, pigs are Poles, and cats are Nazi’s. It takes the older Spiegelman from rich factory owner, to a Jewish ghetto, to Auschwitz, and home. With my love to animation, I found that pictures were able to bring to life in an always relevant way the life in war and felt reconnected to my family’s history, especially my grandmother an Auschwitz survivor. I recommend this book to everyone; it is difficult to digest at times but is able to hit the spot and would make a great read for a day like today. 