This question has been answered, but you seem to be asking for more explanation. Art calls his father a murderer for destroying his mother's diaries because now he cannot find out what his mother was like through her eyes as her views and writings of what is happening are gone. Who his mother really is as viewed by herself will never be known by Art because of his father's actions. Art needs to find out about Auschwitz because it is the key to understanding his father and why his father is such a hard man to love or even like with all the fighting between Art and his father. Remember that he began the book as a way to make peace with his father and hopefully learn more about his family history. His father takes a different approach because he has lived through the horrors and doesn't want to relive them. Art has not seen the awful events which Vladek lived through, so Art doesn't quite get reluctance to explain what happens in the lives of his mother, father, and now unknown brother. Vladek just wants to forget what happened and live in the present without thinking of the horrors of what happened to him, Anya, and his son. Both Art and Vladek have valid reasons for why they act as they do.
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