Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted

As friends and neighbours are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins...With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew's best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. Joining forces, and eventually hearts,with Esther, a Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus performers, double agents, quislings, fake Indians" and real ones"--