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The Purpose of Killing a Jew is the story of forbidden love, secrets and revenge. It is set across three centuries – from the shtetls of Lithuania 1752 through the Panery Forests of the 1940s, it leaps to Buenos Aires of the 1960s and to present day Cape Town and Vilnius. 


It is the story of two souls on a journey to find a place of peace in a world of betrayal, deceit, and despair. Faina is a current resident of Vilnius, Lithuania. At 87 she is one of the only survivors left of the Panery Forest massacre. She has found a diary giving the names and details of the Ypatingas Burys, the violent local gang of thugs and perpetuators of the crimes. And now she is missing. 


The Purpose of Killing a Jew is the first book to explore the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the annihilation of Lithuanian Jews in WW2. Both love story and thriller, it also exposes the anti-Semitic holocaust Obfuscation – a current practice in Lithuania. 

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