Plunder : a memoir of family property and stolen Nazi treasure / Menachem Kaiser.
Publication details: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe, 2021.Edition: Australian editionDescription: viii, 277 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925713343 (paperback)
- Memoir of family property and Nazi treasure
- Kaiser, Meir Menachem, 1921-1977 -- Family
- Kaiser family
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie) -- Reparations
- Inheritance and succession -- Poland
- Jewish property -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie) -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Poland
- Treasure troves -- Poland
- Sosnowiec (Wojewodztwo Slaskie, Poland) -- History -- 20th century
- 940.53/18144 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 940.53 KAI | Available | 062590 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277)
Malachowskiiego -- Riese -- Malachowskiiego -- Forever book -- Epilogue.
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 labourer 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.