I also encountered a few holes or unresolved storylines in MAUS. One such hole was with Vladek's family while he was drafted to war. While he was a Polish soldier and held captive in a P.O.W. camp by the Germans, how did his wife Anja fare? They just stayed at home from the the book implies. Richieu, their first son, also grows up in this hole, and is 2 when Vladek returns. The book also never states how long Vladek was gone in the first place.
Another storyline that I wish was expanded upon was with Tosha and her children. Tosha was in the Zawiercie ghetto with her two daughters and Vladek's son Richieu. The Nazis came and wiped the ghetto clean, taking prisoners to concentration camps. Tosha, who always kept a vial of poison around her neck, poisoned herself, her two daughters, and Richieu. She didn't want them to go to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and she knew they probably wouldn't survive the rest of the war, so she ended their lives and her own to prevent any more suffering. I am wondering why she took such a drastic move. The book does not state how much a chance they would have had to survive, but it must have been low for her to make such a decision. I would like to have known what happened before and after that event...how did Tosha fare with the kids, and how were they found when she killed themselves?
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