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 Menachem
Kaiser's brilliantly told story woven from improbable events and profound revelations is set
in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to
reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec Poland. Soon he is 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. Propelled by rich original research
Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What
does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living?
Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent daring interrogation of
inheritance-material spiritual familial and emotional.
