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Barcode37821002426290
LocationMarshall District
TitlePlunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure / Menachem Kaiser.
AuthorKaiser, Menachem, 1985- author.
Call No940.53 KAI
CollectionAdult 900

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Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781328508034
International Standard Book Number 132850803X
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 940.53/18144
Personal Name Kaiser, Menachem, 1985- author.
Title Statement Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure / Menachem Kaiser.
Varying Form of Title Memoir of family property and Nazi treasure.
Imprint Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Physical Description viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Formatted Contents Note Małachowskiiego -- Riese -- Małachowskiiego -- Forever book -- Epilogue.
Summary, Etc. "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?" --book jacket.
Subject-Personal Name Kaiser, Meir Menachem, 1921-1977 Family.
Subject-Personal Name Kaiser family.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Treasure troves Poland.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Inheritance and succession Poland.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Destruction and pillage Poland.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) Reparations.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Jewish property Poland Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) 20th century.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term World War, 1939-1945 Claims.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) History 20th century.