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le scenes involving the Shoah
with Illuminated, in part because
he did not see the drama strictly
as a Holocaust movie.
After all, Foer's novel had
begun as a family quest: His
grandfather had died when he
was a boy, but his relatives had
refused to discuss his past in a
shtetl called Trachimbrod.
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again asked his mother for
details. All she could provide was
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and the woman who had saved
him from the Nazis. The author
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