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Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see it. That product is the Holocaust, and Maurice, a Holocaust survivor with an inflated personal history, and Norman, enjoying vicarious victimhood as a participant in the second-generation movement, proceed to market it enthusiastically. Not even the disappearance of Nechama, Norman's daughter and Maurice's granddaughter, into the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz, where she is transformed into a nun, Sister Consolatia of the Cross, deters them from pushing their agenda. Father and son embark on a tour…
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6 editions- Paperback · English · 2008Harper Perennial · 336 pages · 9780061173479
- Ebook · English · 2007HarperCollins · 9780061284991
- Hardcover · English · 2007HarperCollins · 336 pages · 9780061173455
- Other · English · 2007HarperCollins Publishers · 336 pages · 9780061285011
- Other · English · 2007HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061285035
- Other · English · 2007HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061285028
FictionLiteratureJewsJews -- United States -- FictionSatireHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)MarketingHolocaust memorials








