PLUNDER

Sub-titled 'A Memoir of Family Property and Stolen Nazi Treasure', this is an unputdownable tale of one man's quest to recover his family's property. The author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim their family's property in Sosnowiec, Poland. There, Menachem meets a Polish lawyer known as 'The Killer' who agrees to take his case and becomes involved with a band of Silesian treasure-seekers, all the while piecing together his family's complex history. '...Then I read the file, saw how my grandfather had tried and failed for more than 20 years to reclaim what his family had lost, and here was an opportunity, I thought, to allow myself to be disturbed. The building, maybe, was a means to access a history, a person, that I'd always thought inaccessible, immutably closed.' The devastating facts are chased down in this part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation on all that history hides from us. 277pp in large paperback.