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With humor and finesse, THE HELL OF AUSCHWITZ: MAUS BY ART SPIEGELMAN explores Art Spiegelman's comic book masterpiece, Maus, which revolutionized the portrayal of Holocaust. First a bookstore phenomenon with a whiff of scandal, then an international bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, Maus nevertheless quickly became a classic. Director Pauline Horovitz, who discovered in this seminal work at the age of 13 the truth that her own family stubbornly kept from her, explores its "before" and "after" in the light of her journey as a granddaughter of survivors.
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