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Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose real name is Bruno Dössekker (born Bruno Grosjean; 12 February 1941 in Biel/Bienne), is a musician and writer who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor. [ 2 ] The book
The Wilkomirski syndrome (German: Wilkomirski-Syndrom) is when non-Jews present as Jewish Holocaust survivors or Jews with a Holocaust trauma in the family. It is named after Binjamin Wilkomirski, the pseudonym used by the author of Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (1995), a discredited Holocaust memoir which initially received positive publicity and several awards.
Wilkomirski affair [ edit ] He was commissioned by Schocken Books , a publisher specializing in judaica , to conduct a full-scale investigation into the life of writer Binjamin Wilkomirski , whose memoir Fragments , published by Schocken in 1996, sparked international controversy. [ 2 ]
Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years is a literary hoax by Misha Defonseca, first published in 1997.The book was fraudulently published as a memoir telling the supposed true story of how the author survived the Holocaust as a young Jewish girl, wandering Europe searching for her deported parents.
Elena Lappin, novelist and author of an investigative essay published in Granta called "Truth and Lies", where she questions the veracity of the account of the Holocaust in the book Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski; Nick Groom, lecturer in English, University of Exeter
Philip Aegidius Walshe (actually Montgomery Carmichael), The Life of John William Walshe, F.S.A., London, Burns & Oates, (1901); New York, E. P. Dutton (1902). This book was presented as a son’s story of his father’s life in Italy as “a profound mystic and student of everything relating to St. Francis of Assisi,” but the son, the father and the memoir were all invented by Montgomery ...
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian and diplomat, best known as author of the books Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005), The Eichmann Trial (2011), and Antisemitism: Here and Now (2019).
This is a list of the winners of the National Jewish Book Award by category. The awards were established in 1950 to recognize outstanding Jewish Literature. [1] [2] They are awarded by the Jewish Book Council, a New-York based non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Jewish literature since 1944.