It seems that America has an inane curiosity as to what happened during the Holocaust. It is almost like a sick sort of curiosity but we still want to know. Since most people nowadays were not in the Holocaust or for that fact alive during World War 2, most people do not have a first hand account of what happened during that time. What we do have are people that were there, and the books and graphic novels that talk about what had happened.
With actual books, there are a lot of facts that are put into it to try and describe what happened according to primary sources. Now, unless there are pictures put into the book, there is no actual way to show the horror that was the Holocaust. You would have to imagine it all for yourself, and that image may not be accurate to what it actually was like.
With the graphic novels that are written about the subject, I believe that it gives a better idea of what it was like, although they are just drawings. As with Maus, it gave you a sense of actually being there, even though the people are represented by animals. The drawings themselves paint a horrifying picture. It shows what it could have been like during that time. Though not as accurate as a photograph, it is still as horrifying.
Both have their validity in telling of what happened, and each of them has advantages over the other. Actual books have a more scholarly appeal while the graphic novel is a bit more accessible to a wider range of people and is usually a bit easier to understand than a book. But like I said, both are valid in the way that they tell a story.
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