The memory monster : a novel
(Book)

"First published as Mifletzet ha-zikaron by Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 2017"--Title page verso.

Our narrator is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers-- their efficiency, audacity, and determination. -- adapted from jacket

In English. Translated from the Hebrew.