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Author | : Stefan Maechler |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2009-07-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307493245 |
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This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil. In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with the masterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received major prizes and was translated into nine languages. The English-language edition was published by Schocken in 1996. In Fragments, Wilkomirski described in heart-wrenching detail how as a small child he survived internment in Majdanek and Birkenau and was eventually smuggled into Switzerland at the war's end. But three years after the book was first published, articles began to appear that questioned its authenticity and the author's claim that he was a Holocaust survivor. Stefan Maechler, a Swiss historian and expert on anti-Semitism and Switzerland's treatment of refugees during and after World War II, was commissioned on behalf of the publishers of Fragments to conduct a full investigation into Wilkomirski's life. Maechler was given unrestricted access to hundreds of government and personal documents, interviewed eyewitnesses and family members in seven countries, and discovered facts that completely refute Wilkomirski's book. The Maechler report has implications far beyond the tragic story of one individual's deluded life. It explores our feelings about survivor literature and the impact these works can have on our remembrance of the Holocaust.
Author | : Stephan Maechler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Blake Eskin |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-05-27 |
Genre | : Authors, German |
ISBN | : 9780393324457 |
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An account of the rise and fall of the author of Fragments.
Author | : Ruth Shamir Popkin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | : |
Download The Wilkomirski Affair and the Search for Truth and Justice Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Binjamin Wilkomirski |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Memoir of a small boy who was separated from his family at the age of three or four-years-old after his father was killed during a round-up of Jews in Latvia, and was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was discovered by Allied soldiers in 1945.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9463512489 |
Download Moving-With & Moving-Through Homelands, Languages & Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a work of walkography: its central source is the use of walking as a mode of inquiry, which is shared through the ‘ography’ of an account or portrayal that is written, visual, performed. The ‘walk’ of this walkography is an embodied movement through space, as well as a performance ‘drawing’, of experience and encounter. This method of inquiry resonates with the fundamental premise of this work, that of migration and diaspora.
Author | : Dominick LaCapra |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421414007 |
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This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.
Author | : Zvi Kolitz |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2000-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375708405 |
Download Yosl Rakover Talks to God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There are two stories here. One is the now legendary tale of a defiant Jew's refusal to abandon God, even in the face of the greatest suffering the world has known, a testament of faith that has taken on an unpredictable and fascinating life of its own and has often been thought to be a direct testament from the Holocaust. The parallel story is that of Zvi Kolitz, the true author, whose connection to Yosl Rakover has been obscured over the fifty years since its original appearance. German journalist Paul Badde tells how a young man came to write this classic response to evil, and then was nearly written out of its history. With brief commentaries by French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas and Leon Wieseltier, author of Kaddish, this edition presents a religious classic and the very human story behind it.
Author | : Stephen Lee Shackelford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alison Leslie Gold |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1910749605 |
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A luminous memoir from the Holocaust writer, Alison Leslie Gold, told through a series of letters to the living and the dead. Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust, stories of courage and survival - most famously her Anne Frank Remembered, co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family). She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories, until now, in Found and Lost. Starting with her childhood experience of running her primary school 'Lost and Found' depot, Gold charts the origin of her need to save objects, stories, people - including herself - whom she has sensed to be on a road to perdition. After a series of deaths of people close to her (mother, lover, mentor, friend), she develops, though a series of letters, a meditation on aging, friendship, loss and the forces that link us to the dead. The letters tell of her early activism; her descent into alcoholism and subsequent recovery; and they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give shape and meaning to a life. Found and Lost is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life, and a compelling tale of redemption.