Review: Wow.  How far would you go for the one you love?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
Human behavior fascinates me, and I find that the horror of the Holocaust provides endless study of the best and worst of it.  We should never forget the crimes committed then, and we should be ashamed that such crimes are still committed today.  It is far too easy to slip into the mode of us vs. them.Finding Rebecca follows the story of Christopher, a German-born citizen whose family resides on the English Channel island of Jersey, and Rebecca, whose family is French and Jewish (she was born and raised on Jersey.)  They meet when they are six years old, and Christopher becomes Rebecca's protector - first from her abusive parents and then from the German forces when they occupy Jersey.Over time, he is unable to stop her deportation from the island and her eventual arrival in a concentration camp.  To rescue her, Christopher becomes an SS officer and enters Auschwitz.For the most part, this is very well-written.  The characters are very real, and of course, the horror of the Holocaust was real and the writing captures a large portion of that.  I'm glad that Dempsey doesn't stop the story at the end of the war - that some of the after-effects are explored.  Let's face it - not everyone had a happy ending, and even those who survived the camps were understandably scarred for life.I do wish that the period after the war had been explored more.  Otherwise, very moving, very well-done.