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Schindler's Listed : The Search for My Father's Lost Gold / Mark Biederman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biederman, Mark, Author.
- Series:
- Holocaust: History and Literature, Ethics and Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biederman, Mark, 1961---Family.
- Biederman, Mark.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (184 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps. His father survived the war but died when the author was a teenager, leaving him only with the knowledge that he had buried coins somewhere in Poland, and no information about his family. During his quest, Biederman uncovers many interesting and disturbing facts about his father and mother and their families, such as the fact that his father was the third person on Oskar Schindler's list and had a chance meeting with Adolph Hitler, and that his mother was selected as a cook for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. The book details the author's quest to unearth his family's past and hist father's treasure and continues with his parent's amazing post-war years in Europe and their eventual arrival in North America.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction
- The Quest Begins
- 1993-1996: Relocating to Windsor
- 1996: Travel to Poland
- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland: July 1944
- Auschwitz-Birkenau: 1996
- Krosno Airbase, Poland: August 27, 1941
- Fate of My Father's Family
- I Receive Unexpected News
- Maidstone, Ontario: Spring 2001
- New Information Changes Our Course
- December 4, 1939: Zeglarska 7, Lodz, Poland
- Europe: 2001
- Majdanek
- Lodz
- Postwar Europe
- Maidstone, Ontario: 2001 through 2003
- Yaron Svoray
- New York: July 2003
- Maidstone, Ontario: 2003
- Wednesday April 21, 2004: Maidstone, Ontario
- Poland: April 2004
- Jedwabne
- Wolf's Lair
- Berlin: 1946
- Warsaw: 2004
- Windsor: Spring/ Summer, 2004
- Lodz: October 2004
- Wroclaw
- Gross-Rosen
- The Trip Home
- April 1949, and Beyond: The American Journey
- Back Home: Ontario, 2004
- Late 2004-Present: Epilogue
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-64469-010-1
- OCLC:
- 1102476333
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