Unraveling a Legacy: A Conversation with Menachem Kaiser

Please join us for a conversation with Menachem Kaiser, moderated by Kerry Madden-Lunsford (UAB Department of English), about his book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure.

The story begins when Kaiser takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Along the way, he discovers that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war but wrote a secret memoir while he was a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex. This leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of local treasure hunters, who revere his relative’s memoir as an indispensable guidebook to finding Nazi loot.

Plunder is both an exciting adventure story and a deeply personal examination of inheritance—material, spiritual, and emotional.

A book signing with the author will take place before and after the event.  Light refreshments will be served.