Auschwitz

At age 15, Martin Greenfield was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis and separated from his family forever.

And you say that Auschwitz, that experience, would tell people who they were.

One of the memorable phrases in the novel is the idea that Auschwitz gives you a picture of your soul.

Even in the Pac Man arcades — perhaps especially there — he was ruminating about Auschwitz.

Nothing seemed so right then as to wrap myself in the Israeli flag marching between Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.