Randi Biederman told the story of her 20-year-long genealogical search in Poland to uncover clues to the location of the family's stash of gold coins buried just prior to being deported by the Nazis in December 1939. As Randi says, "We started with very little information, and what we thought we knew was wrong."
Randi Biederman is co-author of the book, Schindler’s Listed: The Search for my Father’s Lost Gold.
A resident of Southern California, Randi is a widow, mother, horticulturist, teacher and now a writer and a speaker. Randi’s father-in-law, Hirsch, was a teenaged deportee from Poland who ended up as the third person named on Schindler’s List. His family had a treasured coin collection that they buried to keep out of Nazi hands, which was not recovered for over sixty-five years. Part of the book is the story of the treasure hunt, which Randi and her husband, Mark, embarked upon after Mark related the story that his father had told him about the coins. Mark only knew that the coins were buried somewhere in Poland. Mark’s dad died in 1981, so it was no longer possible to ask him any details. Mark eventually, along with Randi, started what ended up being a 20-year quest to discover when and where the family managed to bury the coins. Additionally, the book is the search for answers as to what happened to Hirsch and the rest of his family, all of whom disappeared during the Holocaust.
Randi Biederman is co-author of the book, Schindler’s Listed: The Search for my Father’s Lost Gold.
A resident of Southern California, Randi is a widow, mother, horticulturist, teacher and now a writer and a speaker. Randi’s father-in-law, Hirsch, was a teenaged deportee from Poland who ended up as the third person named on Schindler’s List. His family had a treasured coin collection that they buried to keep out of Nazi hands, which was not recovered for over sixty-five years. Part of the book is the story of the treasure hunt, which Randi and her husband, Mark, embarked upon after Mark related the story that his father had told him about the coins. Mark only knew that the coins were buried somewhere in Poland. Mark’s dad died in 1981, so it was no longer possible to ask him any details. Mark eventually, along with Randi, started what ended up being a 20-year quest to discover when and where the family managed to bury the coins. Additionally, the book is the search for answers as to what happened to Hirsch and the rest of his family, all of whom disappeared during the Holocaust.
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