How to Recover Family Treasure The Nazis Plundered in the 1940s

Published: March 2, 2021, 7 a.m.

b'Today\'s guest recently went on a quest to reclaim his family\\u2019s property in Poland and found himself
entangled with Nazi treasure hunters. He is Menachem Kaiser, author of "Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure."

Kaiser\\u2019s story is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather\\u2019s former battle to reclaim the family\\u2019s 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 \\u201cThe Killer.\\u201d A surprise discovery\\u2014that his grandfather\\u2019s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex\\u2014leads 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.

In our discussion, we get into questions that reach far beyond Kaiser\'s personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living?'