Konin

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Konin

A Quest

Social groups: religious groups and communities Family history, tracing ancestors

Author: Theo Richmond

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Language: English

Published by: Vintage Digital

Published on: 30th April 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9781448156139


The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland

and of one man''s obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors. Since his early childhood in London, Theo Richmond had heard his relatives mention a place called Konin, the Polish Shetetl from which both his parents came. He felt an irresistible urge to find out more about this small town and its Jewish community, to place on record something of what the Nazis had destroyed and thus to remember. He searched for its few survivors, scattered in many lands. Starting with an old man in London, he traced others, not only in Britain, but in Brooklyn, Florida, Texas, on a kibbutz in Israel, Jerusalem and elsewhere.

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