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Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community

Konin: One Man's Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community

Richmond, Theo

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

ISBN10: 0679758232
ISBN13: 9780679758235
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 572
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.38 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
The internationally acclaimed story of a Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland--and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors after the Holocaust. - A stunning achievement.... A deep and powerful book.... He has re-created a world. --The New York Times

In 1939 the Polish town of Konin vanished in the wake of Nazi occupation. Twenty-five years later, Theo Richmond set out to find what he could about that vanished world. He traveled across the United States, Europe, and Israel, tracing survivors and sifting through archives and the stories of those he interviewed. A project he thought would take six months took seven years. Finally he confronted the Konin of today. Interweaving past and present, Konin tells the story of one community--how it began, how it flourished, and how it ended--and in the process re-creates the precariousness, anguish and necessity of human memory.

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