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Miloch and Pesach build a bunker in the shoe shop (Haskel has made escape plans of his own) and invite Vladek, Anja, and Lolek to hide with them when the time comes. Lolek refuses to hide. He is fifteen years old, and is tired of living in bunkers.
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With some trepidation, Vladek begins to tell his story. When...
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Artie Spiegelman, a young Jewish-American cartoonist,...
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Vladek died of congestive heart failure on August 18, 1982 …...
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Miloch works repairing shoes for the German soldiers. He...
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While waiting to hear from Abraham, Vladek goes to visit his cousin Miloch, who is hiding in a trash pit. Vladek tells Miloch that he’s going to Hungary and recommends that Miloch consider Mrs. Motonowa’s home as an alternate hiding place.
Vladek visits Miloch and tells him to move into Mrs. Motonowa ’s house. In an aside to Artie, he remarks that Miloch and his family spent the remainder of the war in Mrs. Motonowa’s house, perfectly safe.
Summary. Artie receives a worried call from Mala, who says that Vladek is going to try to clean the drainpipes despite his frail health. Artie initially agrees to come and help his father, but then decides he doesn’t want to. When Artie visits a week later, Vladek seems upset.
This issue thus settled, Vladek goes to visit Miloch, who is hiding in a garbage hole behind his old house with his wife and child. Vladek tells Miloch that he may soon be leaving for Hungary, and that there will be a vacancy at Mrs. Motonowa's.
Vladek and Shivek leave the displaced persons camp to visit the German town of Hannover, where Shivek’s brother lives with his wife, a German woman who hid him throughout the war. Their children have their father’s mouse ears and their mother’s cat stripes.
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Vladek tells Art that his cousin Miloch also survived the war and emigrated with his family to Australia. Miloch had died the past year, from a heart attack on the street. Unlike Vladek, he didn’t have his pills on him.
