Read the excerpt from Wiesel's All Rivers Run to the Sea. No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man's death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel.

Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman's Maus.

Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?

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From, the excerpt provided, I see the words Jewish and gas chambers. These are key words that help us figure out that it is about the Holocaust, because during this horrific event Jewish people were gathered up, put into concentration camps, and sometimes gassed to death.

I have not read Maus but I do know that it is about the Holocaust. Many images talk about Hitler, the despot the pioneered the horrific Holocaust.

Therefore, the main theme addressed in both excerpts in The Holocaust.

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