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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
 
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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (Paperback)
by Binjamin Wilkomirski (Author), Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
3.4 out of 5 stars  (25 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Schocken Books (Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 080521089X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805210897
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.3 x 1.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 773,224 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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4 star: 12%  (3)
3 star: 8%  (2)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy masquerading as fact, 15 Aug 1999
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Anyone thinking about buying this book should know that, while the author may be sincere in his recollections, none of it is actually true. Wilkomirksi did not spend any of his childhood in concentration camps, he is not Jewish, and his name is not even "Wilkomirski." His mother was an unmarried Swiss woman who gave him up for adoption in Switzerland, as described in an article by Philip Gourevitch, "The Memory Thief," in the The New Yorker (June 14, 1999). Gourevitch writes: "Wilkomirski has . . . decked himself out in second-hand memories, borrowed memories, and outright stolen memories. I am thinking of a testimony he gave to the Holocaust museum, where he held up a picture of a little blond-haired, Jewish boy in a Krakow orphanage after the war, and said, 'I know that's me.' Who was that child before Wilkomirski clipped his little head and put it on his own shoulders?"
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A total work of fic