Reich, Tova

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"Maurice and Norman Messer, father-and-son business partners, know a good product when they see one. 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 of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which Maurice -now the driving force behind the most powerful Holocaust memorialization institution in America -organizes to soften up a potential major donor, and which Norman exploits to embark on a surrealistic search for his daughter. At the death camp they run into assorted groups and individuals all clamoring for a piece of the Holocaust, including Buddhist New Agers on a retreat, Israeli schoolchildren on a required heritage pilgrimage, a Holocaust artifact hustler, filmmakers, and an astonishing collection of others. All hell breaks loose when Maurice's museum is taken over by a coalition of self-styled victims seeking Holocaust status, bringing together a vivid cast of all-too-human characters, from Holocaust professionals to Holocaust wannabes of every persuasion, in the fevered competition to win the grand prize of owning the Holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.