THE BOOK FAIR

Seiben’s fast faced, historical novel of the Holocaust offers facts, statistics, and details of Nazi crimes against Jews and other civilians in occupied Ukraine.  The basis of the story focuses on the enormity of the murders at Babi Yar, the ravine located near the city of Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine.   The novel then expands to the survivors, the remnant Jews, who survived the destruction of their villages and towns and found shelter in the forests, then later banded together to become partisans. 

The story turns into a thriller of ‘cat and mouse’ as the Nazis, determined to find the partisans, and the partisans together with Christian friends, determined to survive, match wits.  Seiben’s thorough account includes information of Jewish history before the war, graphic details of Nazi atrocities during the war, details of historic events after the war and explains the roots of anti-Semitism.