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Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure / Menachem Kaiser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaiser, Menachem, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kaiser, Meir Menachem, 1921-1977--Family.
- Kaiser, Meir Menachem.
- Kaiser family.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie).
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Treasure troves.
- Jewish property.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Poland.
- Poland--Sosnowiec (SÌląskie).
- Inheritance and succession--Poland.
- Jewish property--Poland--Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Claims.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Claims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Poland.
- Treasure troves--Poland.
- Sosnowiec (Śląskie, Poland)--History--20th century.
- Sosnowiec (Śląskie, Poland).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages)
- Other Title:
- memoir of family property and Nazi treasure
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family's apartment building in Poland--and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows Menachem Kaiser's brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as "The Killer." A surprise discovery--that his grandfather's cousinnot only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex--leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance--material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2021).
- Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature - Inspiration Award for Fiction, Winner, 2022
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kaiser, Menachem, 1985- Plunder
- ISBN:
- 9781328506467
- 1328506460
- Publisher Number:
- 40030411445
- EB00824302 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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