What is the significance of the title MAUS I by Art Spiegelman?I have to do a project and they are asking me what is the significance of the...

The significance of the title Maus I
by Art Spiegelman is that the German word for mouse immediately points out the way Jews
were viewed by the Germans.  The rest of the title, A Survivor's
Tale, points out for the reader that Spiegelman is telling the
story of a survivor--that of his own father.  Because Spiegelman is an artist, all the
people are portrayed as animals with the Nazis being cats which hunt.  The Jewish people
are portrayed as mice which makes the cats' constant hunt feel much more real.  The
reader can visualize the mice's desperate attempts to hide or escape the traps set for
them.  Again, as mice, the reader can see how many ways the mice are caught, what
happens to them, and how many of them survive.  Spiegelman's father does survive, but
lives a very unhappy life, so that even survivors are still living the memories of being
hunted continually.