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050 00 $aPT2685.I383$bZ77 2001
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100 1 $aMächler, Stefan,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00026606
240 10 $aFall Wilkomirski.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00026607
245 14 $aThe Wilkomirski affair :$ba study in biographical truth /$cStefan Maechler ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSchocken Books,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $aix, 496 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Including the text of Fragments"--Cover.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [368]-372).
520 1 $a"This is the definitive report on Fragments, Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aIn Fragments, Wilkomirski described in heartwrenching detail how as a small child he survived internment in Majdanek and Birkenau and was eventually smuggled into Switzerland at the war's end.".
520 8 $a"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 March, 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.
520 8 $aMaechler 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 feeling about survivor literature and the impact these works can have on our remembrance of the holocaust."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aWilkomirski, Binjamin.$tBruchstücke.
600 10 $aWilkomirski, Binjamin$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 12 $aWilkomirski, Binjamin.$tBruchstücke.$lEnglish.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96017536
852 00 $bglx$hPT2685.I383$iZ77 2001