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Menachem Kaiser documents his journey in Plunder. (Beowulf Sheehan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
When Menachem Kaiser set out to reclaim a building his grandfather’s family owned before the Holocaust in Sosnowiec, Poland, he thought it would take him 18 months at most. His grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, had already meticulously gathered paperwork and the documentation necessary.
Instead, it’s been over six years since Kaiser began the journey and he’s no closer to an ending.
Kaiser documents his journey in “Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure,” out March 16, where his quest to reclaim his family’s building leads him to discover his grandfather’s first cousin, Abraham Kajzer, the closest relative to survive the Holocaust. Abraham, Kaiser learns, actually wrote a Holocaust memoir, “Za Drutami Śmierci,” that in part details his time spent in Riese, vast underground tunnels constructed by the Nazis where many suspect treasure looted during
Kaiser documents his efforts to untangle his family's story in "Plunder," a memoir and a meditation on the ever-changing nature of Holocaust storytelling.