Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property & Nazi Treasure

- Menachem Kaiser

A New York Times Critics’ Best Nonfiction Book of 2021, Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Biography

The story of when the author took over his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. It details his encounters with other residents of the building, their stories, the discovery of a cousin, who not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while he was a slave laborer in a secret Nazi tunnel complex. Kaiser also discusses his dealings with treasure seekers.

Author: Menachem Kaiser - A Canadian writer, currently living in Brooklyn. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various international publications.