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Question pertaining to the graphic novel ‘Maus’ by Art Spiegelman?
What is the significance of this quote?
“They thought it was to Theresienstadt they were going. But they went right away to Auschwitz, to the gas.” (p. 87)
Theresienstadt was supposedly a special community for the Aged Jews. A retirement village of sorts.
Supposedly that is where All Jews over 70 years of age were being shipped. In reality they went Straight to Auschwitz. Sadly, most who went to Auschwitz only left one way, through the Gas chambers, and out the Chimneys.
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