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This novel opens with the town of Badenheim getting ready for the annual summer music festival with some average Jewish guests. The guests think they are going to Badenheim and relax and have fun like they normally do. There’s only one problem with this idea, the Sanitation Department has other plans for these well to do Jewish guests. The Sanitation Department starts carrying out many inspections that ask random questions about the guests. The next thing is they request the registration from each one of the Jewish guests. “ In the middle of May a modest announcement appeared on the notice board saying that all citizens who were Jews had to register with the Sanitation Department no later than the end of the month.” (p.20) What the guests didn’t know was that when they registered, they were really signing