House On Endless Waters, Elon - B

          An Israeli novelist on a visit to Amsterdam goes to the Jewish Museum, where he sees a video of the Jewish Quarter before the war and what appears to be his mother holding an unknown brother. He is now on a search for truth and identity. He returns to Amsterdam, takes up residence near the apartment his parents lived in and begins to research the past. Simultaneously, he begins to write his mother's story and the slow-motion dehumanization and destruction of Amsterdam's Jews. The more he progresses,  the more he learns about a series of decisions that altered, and saved, his life. This is a wonderful story and one that would be very meaningful as an introduction to the sorry story of Europe's Jewry in the war.