num_pages: 544
description: 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 Shtetl 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.
language: English
title: Konin: A Quest
titlecomplete: Konin: A Quest
genres: Poland, Biography, History, World War II, Nonfiction, Jewish, Historical, Holocaust, Judaism
ratings_count: 112
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Vintage Books