Płuczki. Poszukiwacze żydowskiego złota

It was not a matter of isolated incidents but a practice that went on for years, almost on a mass scale. Men, women and children from villages near the former extermination camps at Sobibór and Bełżec dug in the graves of hundreds of thousands of victims for 'Jewish gold', washing ashes mixed with earth in the river or in pits dug for the purpose. The reporter collects the voices of the diggers and of their children, who say it was not their doing, and keeps looking for anyone who will call it wrong. He excuses no one but tries to understand how a gold rush could follow the Holocaust.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

237 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland

First published

2019 by Agora

Author's age

42 when first published

ISBN

9788326829499 (original)