Why Did Vladek Leave The Holocaust

Why do they eventually leave Auschwitz? Is this the end of their troubles?
On the way back to Germany, the conditions were as bad as Auschwitz. They traveled in trains made for cattle and cargo, packed so tightly together. Everyone laid on top of one another and were forced to relieve themselves right where they stood. The vast majority of people in Vladek’s car didn’t survive, no more than an eighth of the original passengers. The thing that allowed Vladek to survive was his ingenuity with the blanket he still held onto. Vladek hung the blanket from two hooks, probably meant for cattle, so that he could at least rest a little. He said, “In this way I can rest and breathe a little. This saved me” (85). On the trains people fell and were crumpled, some even stabbing those who stood upon them. The trains stopped in the cold for
Where do they go? Why don’t they come to America?After the war, Vladek and Anja do not stay in Poland very long. All the rest of their family is dead or unheard of and Poland is only a shell of what it used to be, buildings gone, people dead. There is nothing left for them there and Anja wants to go live near her only living relative, Herman. He lives in the United States, which is where they intended to go, but there were quotas overseas in America and they wouldn’t be allowed in. For this, Anja and Vladek get on a plane and fly into Stockholm, Sweden. They needed a visa to come into the U.S., and while they waited Vladek established himself well and earned a lot of money by doing business between hosiery factories in the U.S. and Sweden. When their visas finally came, Vladek didn’t want to leave, but he knew Anja had started dying emotionally and she needed to be in America. Vladek describes this to Art when he says, “Really I was sorry to go. I made in The States a living but never I had it again so good” (125). He didn’t want to go but he held Anja’s wants and wishes high above his