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Book

Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure

Call Number

  • 940.5318 K136 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Physical Description

viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

When Kaiser takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland, he finds himself 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. Here Kaiser questions: What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living?

Contents

  • Małachowskiiego
  • Riese
  • Małachowskiiego
  • Forever book
  • Epilogue.

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