Kaiser Menachem - Plunder: A Memoir Of Family Property And Nazi Treasure - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A New York Times Critics Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography 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 cousin not 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.
Title: Plunder: A Memoir Of Family Property And Nazi Treasure
Author(s): Kaiser Menachem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Barcode: 9781328508034
Pages: 288 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 3/16/2021
Category: Biography: General