We just finished Maus by Art Spiegelman for our teacher book club. You can borrow this book from the library (or maybe from a teacher who is finished). The story goes like this:
{Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.} This book introduces readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and history itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice, the Poles are pigs, the Americans are dogs, the Swedes are reindeer, the French are frogs), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. The two volumes tie together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.
The second part is called Maus II and goes on to describe the concentration camps and the atrocities committed.
These are both graphic novels and so are in a comic book form. If you are interested, stop by the library and check them out!
