Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen's Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.
"I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej... This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz
for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day."
Read the text and study the image from Art Spiegelman's Maus. the theme best expressed in both excerpts is