The Shop on Main Street

Plot

This is the original story of the highly succesful Academy Award winning Czech film of the same title dealing with a good natured carpenter living in a Slovak town in 1942 who unwittingly becomes a participant in the gathering moral crisis invovling the abuse and persecution of the Jews. This novel is a human drama that is a mnoving manifest of the dark dilemma that confronted all people who were caught as witnesses to Hitler's terrible crime. Is one his brother's keeper? is the thundering question the situation asks, and then as supplement "are not all men brothers?"