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Daniel Trilling: Perpetual Reclamation, 8 September 2022
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
by Menachem Kaiser.
Scribe, 277 pp., £14.99, August 2021,978 1 911617 49 5 Show More
by Menachem Kaiser.
Scribe, 277 pp., £14.99, August 2021,
“... the gold existed, he said, thousands of slave labourers had died digging the tunnels. This was, as Menachem Kaiser writes in Plunder, ‘a site of death, not treasure’.The Golden Train – which, unsurprisingly, turned out not to exist – provides the overarching metaphor for Kaiser’s own attempt to reclaim family ... ”