Art Spiegelman, an American cartoonist, exploits postmodern principles in his best-known graphic novel Maus. He successfully used the characteristics between animals and humans to demonstrate a cruel and bloody historical event, the Holocaust. In short, animal images are an important and successful medium for Art Spiegelman to demonstrate the social background and ethnic problem during the World War II period. This comparison gives readers a better understanding of the ethnic differences between Jews and Nazi supporters in a more visual sense. Art Spiegelman as a second generation survivor, experienced the Holocaust as a listener but did not participate in the event, therefore, demonstrates the Holocaust authentically in MausArt Spiegelman used animals to replace human characteristics is appropriate to the cultural context of l 'Holocaust. Adolf Hitler's distorted idea that Jews are not part of the human race but are parasites underlies the tragic events of the Holocaust during World War II. As Hitler said: “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human” (Ma 3). Under his leadership, Der Sturmer, a Nazi newspaper, and other anti-Semitic publications used the image of rats to describe Jews because they believed that Jews should be eliminated just like parasites (C.Ewert 7). At the time, in the eyes of most Nazi supporters, rats were a cultural stereotype of the Jewish people. In Maus, Art Spiegelman used Nazi Germany's idea that Jews were carriers of disease and parasites to portray Jews as