85 books with Auschwitz in the title: the publishing industry uses the Holocaust as a commercial hook. Popular novels about Auschwitz, essentially fictions about the Holocaust, teach nothing new; they simply recycle the same set of stereotypes and symbols.

The vast majority are inspired by real stories that occurred in the German concentration and extermination camp, in which the Nazis murdered more than a million people, mainly Jews. The Auschwitz Memorial had already spoken out about the historical errors of some of the best-sellers.