Holocaust Survivor becomes a Murderer

The graphic novel Maus is written Art Spiegelman, the son of a Holocaust survivor, who narrates his father's history as comics. In the first volume, Art calls his father, Vladek, a murderer because he burned Art's deceased mother's diaries from the war. 

I think these series of panels are significant to the story because Art was inspired to write this book because of his father's stories and point of view, but never his mother's, Anja. The only way to know her story and what she went through was through her words, her diaries. But Art couldn't come to terms with it when he found out that his father had burned the diaries because he became depressed after suicide. Art realized that he had lost the only connection he had left with Anja. By burning the books, not only did Anja die again, but her voice was also silenced by Vladek. Art could no longer include his mother's story, so both his book revolved around his father's. Throughout the book, the interactions between Art and Vladek are always strained. They keep yelling and arguing with each other. Maybe this incident might've affected their relationship when it came to writing about the book and listening to Vladek's and Anja's past. However, I think the book went really well even without his mother's point of view because writing the book with one point of view makes it more organized and attention-grabbing.