Published in 1991, Maus is inspired by the story of Spiegelman s parents, Vladek and Anja, who survived the Holocaust and spent time in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language" and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes from a board meeting.
Jan 27 (Reuters) - A school board in Tennessee has voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel "Maus" from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
A national wave of book challenges continued this week as ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the holocaust novel ‘Maus’ were removed from student reading lists in Washington and Tennessee. National library groups report book banning efforts are on the rise and are denying young people the freedom to explore a broad range of viewpoints and ideas.