Both are very interesting and exciting books, that basically tell a similar story, but with different points of view. Both authors talk about the Holocaust, one from his own point of view (because he went through it) and the other by the father's experience.
In Maus the story is told by Art Spiegelman about how his father (Vladimik Spiegelman) had to escape the people who chased him down in Poland. He was a wealthy man, who could afford payind for hidding places and favors. He remained hidden for a long time, but unfortunately, he was sent to a camp at the end. The book uses the animal metaphor, in which rats are Jews, cats are Germans, Poles are pigs, and U.S citizens were dogs. This is a perfect metaphor because dogs chase cats, who at the same time chase rats. Pigs are the only neutral animals. Maus part I mainly talk about what Vladimik did to avoid camp, and everything him and his wife went through when they were hidden. They don't talk about his life in the camp at all.
Night, on the other hand, is a memoir told by Elie Weisel who was tajen from Transylvania, Hungary. In Hungary things were way better than in Poland. Jews were taken almost at the end of the Holocaust, and even though people from Elie's town were warned about the dangers of staying, they didn't cared. But sooner or later, the day when the Germans inveded them came, and they took Elie and his family when he was just a boy. His family was split and he went to a camp with his father. Most of this story tells their experiences in the camp, all the inhuman conditions they went through and how they changed every day that went by. Elie endures all the Holcaust, but his father died three month before being liberated. His mother and sister also died, but the book doesn't specify how.
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