Answer:
Vladek Spiegelman is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. It´s this experience that he tells his son, Art Spiegelman, who then published a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon, called Maus, where he tells his father´s story.
Explanation:
To be able to address the horrible experience, Art portraits the Nazis as cats and the Jews as mice, in an attempt to make it more friendly to the reader.