Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure | 
pickMenachem‘s grandfather,a Shoah survivor,fought to reclaim a building the Nazis had taken from his father.Menachem decides to continue the legal battle his grandfather started and embarks on an almost Kaskaesque journey through Polish law.When he comes across Abraham Kaiser his grandfather‘s cousin who was also a survivor,wrote a memoir&is worshipped by Nazi treasure hunters,he gets sucked into their surreal world.I loved this memoir for its depth.
I‘m reading the tagged book for #truecrime #bookclub later this month, and the Hubs is gaming.
so-so#MixedFeelings #NonfictionNovember
Parts of this book, a grandson‘s quest to reclaim owned property from his family‘s estate in Poland (which was lost to them during the Holocaust) was excellent. The parts of this book about Polish Nazi “treasure” hunters were at first interesting but soon became tiresome. And then at the very end, the author makes another swerve which could have been satisfying but he chooses to leave the reader wondering.
Up next!
Our book club is made up of moms that became friends volunteering at our kids‘ school, so we don‘t meet during the summertime. This year we each submitted a fiction, non-fiction, and beach read and voted for each category...this was the non-fiction pick! I‘m looking forward to reading about Poland, where my ancestors from...one day I‘d love to travel there!
#bookspinbingo
pickThe search for lost legacies, the effort of tracing memory, & the hope of recovery, especially in Poland, is an emotionally complex undertaking. I know from first hand experience and it is, in part, why I chose to act as a historian and not a claimant. This meandering story of family, an apartment, treasure hunters, and the author‘s reckoning with it has heart and probing insight into what it means to physically and metaphorically dig up the past
Happy weekend!! It‘s sunny but cold so I‘m gonna drink my tea and chill. Apparently it‘s May.
pickFascinating story of one Jewish man‘s story to try and reclaim his family‘s apartment in Poland. Some twists and turns I didn‘t see coming. I appreciated it honesty and self reflection.
