Title Plunder : a memoir of family property and Nazi treasure / Menachem Kaiser.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2021]

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Description	viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
Contents	Małachowskiego -- Riese -- Małachowskiego -- Forever book -- Epilogue.
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? -- adapted from jacket
Subject	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Reparations -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie)
	Kaiser, Meir Menachem, 1921-1977 -- Family.
	Inheritance and succession -- Poland.
	Jewish property -- Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) -- 20th century.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Claims.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Poland.
	Kaiser family.
	Treasure troves -- Poland.
	Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) -- History -- 20th century.
	Kaiser family. (OCoLC)fst00218958
	Destruction and pillage. (OCoLC)fst01906941
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Inheritance and succession. (OCoLC)fst00973371
	Jewish property. (OCoLC)fst00982902
	Treasure troves. (OCoLC)fst01431639
	War reparations. (OCoLC)fst01736384
	Poland. (OCoLC)fst01206891
	Poland -- Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie) (OCoLC)fst01320822
	HISTORY / World.
	Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst00958866
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Claims. (OCoLC)fst01774244
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Memoir of family property and Nazi treasure
Other Form:	Online version: Kaiser, Menachem, Plunder Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. 9781328506467 (DLC) 2020033852
ISBN	9781328508034 (hardcover)
	132850803X (hardcover)
	9781328506467 (electronic book)

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