http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/books/review/Margolick-t.html?pagewanted=print

MY HOLOCAUST
By Tova Reich.
326 pp. HarperCollins Publishers. $24.95.

The story revolves around the barely disguised United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the fictional character Maurice Messer, a Holocaust survivor and the presidentially appointed poobah in charge. The elderly Messer has gotten rich off Hitler’s genocide with a company called Holocaust Connections Inc., which certifies businesses as suitably Holocaust-respectful. As the museum’s chairman, Messer is on a mission to use the legacy of the six million to manipulate the world, induce guilt, raise money, noodge wayward Jews back into the fold and feed his own ego. For a donation of a million dollars or more you get your name carved on the museum wall; for a cool five, you can get a sterling silver urn with genuine human ashes, or maybe even your own inscribed cattle car.
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Apart from our righteous and very learned narrator, no one here comes off as anything but a scoundrel, fool, lecher or slob. The bile extends, inexplicably, to Holocaust survivors. Every one of them here is grotesque, obsessed with sexual organs, bodily fluids and digestion. One woman, who weighed 80 pounds when liberated, hasn’t stopped noshing since — ballooning to 220 pounds. The chutzpah! These grubby manipulators even know how to extort preferential treatment at the Holocaust Museum: just wave their arms — yes, the ones with the numbers tattooed on them — at the guards.
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