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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

av Binjamin Wilkomirski

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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award An extraordinary memoir of a small boy who spent his childhood in the Nazi death camps. Binjamin Wilkomirski was a child when the round-ups of Jews in Latvia began. His father was killed in front of him, he was separated from his family, and, perhaps three or four years old, he found himself in Majdanek death camp, surrounded by strangers. In piercingly simple scenes Wilkomirski gives us the "fragments" of his recollections, so that we too become small again and see this bewildering, horrifying world at child's eye-height. No adult interpretations intervene. From inside the mind of a little boy we too experience love and loss, terror and friendship, and the final arduous return to the "real" world. Beautifully written, with an indelible impact that makes this a book that is not read but experienced, Fragments is "a masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews). Translated form the German by Carol Brown Janeway. "This sunning and austerely written work is so profoundly moving, so morally important, and so free from literary artifice of any kind at all that I wonder if I even have the right to try to offer praise."--Jonathan Kozol, The Nation From the Trade Paperback edition.… (mer)
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Another book on the holocaust but from the eyes of a boy who lived in a death camp. A simple book I picked up in Cape Town but beautifully written although translated from German. ( )
  peterwhumphreys | Mar 18, 2012 |
Binjamin was a very young child when he was sent to a concentration camp. Despite his youth and his inexperience, he was able to survive the atrocities and horrors of World War II.

I have read the reviews, and the articles about this being a fictionalized story. However, I must say that it is well written, engaging and intriguing. Many scholarly articles suggest that Binjamin himself truly believes the fiction he has created. As such, I am not outraged about this story. Many horrible things happened during World War II. If his memories are not reality then he is a troubled individual, one who perhaps survived different horrors, and does not deserve scorn but rather compassion. ( )
  JanaRose1 | Nov 22, 2011 |
Note: This review and most others will be spoilers. To get the full impact of this book, read it first, and, only afterward, read the reviews.

This is probably the most devastating account of the Holocaust I have ever read. I think that whatever I say about this book probably will not give it enough justice.

Fragments is the account, in bits and pieces, of a child survivor of the Majdanek death camp during World War II. It has taken the author many years to piece through the truth of that time, but he tells his story through the eyes of a child. He was only three or four years old when he was thrust by himself into this world of horror. The ideas and thoughts that he formed from seeing incredible brutality affected his psyche even after his so-called “liberation” from Nazi persecution. The most heartrending part of this book for me, oddly enough, was the part about young Binjamin’s re-entry into the world outside of the concentration camp.

As the granddaughter of maternal grandparents who died in the ovens of Auschwitz, I grew up in an atmosphere in which my parents never told me anything disturbing about their family related to the Holocaust. How doubly sad, then, it must have been for young Binjamin, who actually endured this fiendish world, to never have been allowed to or felt free enough to talk about his enduring fears even after his “liberation”.

This is a troubling book. Beware, if you choose to read it, that it contains unbearable cruelty. Yet know in your hearts that this is not fiction.

Addendum: It was only after I finished reading this book that I remembered why I got it in the first place. The book was found out to be, not the biography of the author, but a hoax. Truthfully, I'm glad I didn't remember this at the time I read it. In other words, I had the full impact of the story from a personal point of view. As in shades of James Frey's book, A Milllion Little Pieces, the public's outrage has come to the forefront to decry the success of this book. Oddly enough, even though Wilkomirski's story is fiction, I'm pretty certain that the feelings of the victims of the Holocaust, had they been children or adults, were not far from those of young Binjamin in this story. ( )
2 rösta SqueakyChu | Oct 1, 2010 |
published in 1995 as a supposed child survivor memoir of life in majdanek & birkenau; exposed as fraudulent some time later. at the same time i got the book debunking the "facts" of wilkomirski (aka bruno grosjean)'s life -- fascinating to read them together. ( )
1 rösta sushi105 | Jun 24, 2010 |
Antimuzak's review below was done in ignorance of the fact that the book was in fact a literary hoax, if an oddly sincere one. Wilkomirski was in fact Bruno Dössekker, a poor soul who apparently deluded himself into believing he was a child survivor of Auchwitz, when he was in fact a Swiss child adopted from an orphanage.

There's a article on the story from the British paper, the Guardian, here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1999/oct/15/features11.g24
1 rösta shikari | Jan 5, 2010 |
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award An extraordinary memoir of a small boy who spent his childhood in the Nazi death camps. Binjamin Wilkomirski was a child when the round-ups of Jews in Latvia began. His father was killed in front of him, he was separated from his family, and, perhaps three or four years old, he found himself in Majdanek death camp, surrounded by strangers. In piercingly simple scenes Wilkomirski gives us the "fragments" of his recollections, so that we too become small again and see this bewildering, horrifying world at child's eye-height. No adult interpretations intervene. From inside the mind of a little boy we too experience love and loss, terror and friendship, and the final arduous return to the "real" world. Beautifully written, with an indelible impact that makes this a book that is not read but experienced, Fragments is "a masterpiece" (Kirkus Reviews). Translated form the German by Carol Brown Janeway. "This sunning and austerely written work is so profoundly moving, so morally important, and so free from literary artifice of any kind at all that I wonder if I even have the right to try to offer praise."--Jonathan Kozol, The Nation From the Trade Paperback edition.

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