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Kaplan's Quest
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781530593743
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Apr 30 2016
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For as long as he can remember, Shmuel Kaplan has lived in the shadow of a man he never met.
His great-uncle Samuel was a champion athlete in Berlin's Jewish sports movement. In 1935, he traveled to Palestine for the Maccabiah Games-then made the inexplicable decision to return to Nazi Germany.
Five years later, he vanished without a trace.
Now, nearly sixty years later, Shmuel-a young historian at the Hebrew University-is determined to discover what happened.
What begins as academic research becomes something far stranger.
From Berlin archives and forgotten police records to chance encounters, family secrets, and unexpected allies, each answer uncovers a deeper mystery: Why was Samuel left alone while others disappeared? Who was protecting him? And what was so important that the German Army took an interest in a Jewish athlete?
As the search stretches across Europe and into the shadows of wartime history, Shmuel finds himself confronting not only the fate of one missing man-but the stories families choose to remember, and the truths they never expected to uncover.
A historical mystery about memory, identity, and the questions that refuse to stay buried.
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