‘Maus’ is the painful story of ‘Vladek Spiegelman’, a survivor of the Hiteler’s Europe and the Nazi death camps, and traces each episode of his entire life - starting from his youth, then his marriage, life during the early days of the Third Reich, his struggles during the initial days of persecution, frantic attempts for personal survival and the survival of his loved one’s in occupied Poland, getting captured and getting imprisoned in Auschwitz, surviving the death camps and his later struggling attempts in leading a normal life until death. It is an honest narration of how the calm-serene world of an individual and people connected to him is turned upside down in to a quest for survival filled with death, destruction, loyalty and betrayal. The first volume of this narration describes Vladek’s story up to his imprisonment in Auschwitz.