Vladek is able to recount their lives together before the Holocaust began, telling Artie how Anja felt very depressed after the birth of their first son, Richieu, and never fully recovered, always anxious and restless. Although Vladek revealed that Anja had kept many journals during her time in the concentration camps, we do not get to see the Holocaust through her eyes since all of these writings had been burned by her own husband in an attempt to erase any memories of her during this time. Therefore, the readers are only able to view Anja as a clingy, overly nervous woman, as depicted through Vladek’s stories and Artie’s memories of
Vladek is able to recount their lives together before the Holocaust began, telling Artie how Anja felt very depressed after the birth of their first son, Richieu, and never fully recovered, always anxious and restless. Although Vladek revealed that Anja had kept many journals during her time in the concentration camps, we do not get to see the Holocaust through her eyes since all of these writings had been burned by her own husband in an attempt to erase any memories of her during this time. Therefore, the readers are only able to view Anja as a clingy, overly nervous woman, as depicted through Vladek’s stories and Artie’s memories of