Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, the narrator of The Memory Monster recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination, guiding tours through the death camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience every detail of the victims' lives and deaths. The job becomes a mission, and then an obsession. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the genocide committed by the Nazis. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers-their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill. With great perspicuity and the bitterest black humour, The Memory Monster confronts difficult questions that are all too relevant to Israel and the world today: How do we process human brutality? What makes us choose sides in conflict? And how do we honour the memory of horror without becoming consumed by it?.