They have a two-bedroom apartment and a Polish nurse. Within a few months, though, they set up another factory, and soon things are again going well. Everything was taken, though Vladek does not think that there were any anti-Semitic motives. When they return home, Vladek's father-in-law tells them that their factory was robbed while they were away. ![]() They stay there for three months, and when they return she is much better. The sanitarium is beautiful, and Vladek takes good care of his ailing wife. They are the first signs of the brewing Nazi storm. On the train, they look out the windows and see swastikas on flags in town centers and hear stories of rampant anti-Semitism. Soon after giving birth Anja becomes terribly depressed, and Vladek takes her to an upscale sanitarium in Czechoslovakia. Their first child, Richieu, is born in 1937. After that incident, Vladek is ready to end his marriage, and he makes Anja promise that she will no longer consort with Communists.Īnja's father gives Vladek a factory to provide for his daughter and what he hopes will soon be their family. The neighbor spends three months in jail, but is eventually released due to lack of evidence. When the police arrived, they found the package and arrested the neighbor. Anja had been decoding and relaying Communist messages from her old friend, and when she got word that the police would be coming, she took the messages over to her neighbor to hide. A short while after their wedding, he returns to his apartment to find that the police have just arrested the seamstress next door. They sit at the table, and Vladek continues his story.īefore Vladek and Anja met, she had one other boyfriend, a Communist from Warsaw. He tells his son that prescription medications are only "junk food," and that to stay healthy, he must fight on his own. In all, he takes over thirty pills a day, including six for his heart, one for diabetes, and more than twenty-five vitamins. When he arrives, Vladek is dividing his pills into daily doses. The HoneymoonĪrt visits his aging father again in Rego Park. To facilitate these transitions in this summary, the Holocaust narrative is written in normal font, while all other narratives are written in italics. ![]() Note: Maus jumps back and forth often between the past and the present.
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