Serene Sanitarium
During the holocaust, Artie and Anja experience horrors that no one should have to go through. They are dragged out of their homes and called "filthy jew[s]'(33) as well as forced to watch their own family members and loved ones killed or taken by Nazi's. Due to this trauma, Anja is taken to a sanitarium in order to recover from being "hysterical or depressed"(31). The sanitarium is drawn as a very serine place to be. Anja and Artie's stay "is [more] like a luxury hotel"(34) than an asylum. They are waited on by nurses and stay in a luxurious room. The sanitarium is the only place during the time period in which Artie's father is telling the story that all races are co-existing peacefully. The drawing shows bunnies, mice, elephants, horses, pigs, mouse, and countless other animals walking around the park-like area with each other. This shows that the only place that is a safe escape from the anti-semitic views is an insane asylum, w