Word: wilkomirski
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...book of interest, says Ryan, is Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski. It was published initially as an autobiography but it was later discovered not to be autobiographical at all. Wilkomirski invented experiences in concentration camps, and the original publishing house retracted the book, causing an international scandal...
Because fact can have far more influence than fiction. How else to explain Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, a harrowing, much celebrated Holocaust memoir, which turns out to have been fabricated? The author's real name is Bruno Doesseker. He is not a child survivor of Majdanek, the son of Latvian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He is Swiss, the son of a Protestant single mother. He never saw the Holocaust. (He claims his Holocaust memory was recalled while he was in therapy...
...because victimhood has its rewards. Wilkomirski won the National Jewish Book Award. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why shouldn't they make it up? They know they can get away with it. Their friends and colleagues in the academy and in radical politics will defend them...
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