In this article the write conveys how the authors of Shoah and Maus convey what happened in the Death Camps during the Holocaust. But then the author goes on the explain how Shoah and Maus look at the Holocaust in a way of there own, and when they portray what happened they cant meet it 100%.
“Lanzmann knows that the experience of the death camps cannot be communicated through his medium,nor can an image be created (recalled) that demonstrates that experience without some degradation or distortion. Spiegelmann, in illustrating Maus, must make concrete decisions about what to include in each panel – this is part of the medium of the comic book.”
Both Spiegelmann and Lanzmann understand that they will never be able to express what truly happened. Then the author of the essay goes on the explain how Maus is not a direct representation of Vladek's life in the camps because of how he added other people stories in it aswell.
“The ‘image’ must therefore be expanded then to include the mental recollections submitted by a witness, or at least the transmission of their experience to a collator, author, filmmaker, who then distills them into some sort of narrative form, be it a film or comixx”.
This essay conveys how the story is passed from person to text and so on that the story does not meet the same as what truly happened to those who lived it.
"But it must be noted that these images, although distorted, do not degrade the reality of which they are based upon. In their distortions, Maus and Shoah encode deeper meanings for their viewers, presenting a new and clearer way of engaging with the retellings of the Holocaust, for a true, accurate and honest depiction of those events is simply not achievable."http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/358/2/retelling-the-stories-of-the-holocaust-in-shoah-and-maus-distorted-images-of-a-monstrous-past