description: 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).Winner of the National Jewish Book AwardTranslated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
language: English
title: Fragments Reading Group Guide: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
titlecomplete: Fragments Reading Group Guide: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, School, Holocaust, Novels, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 365
awards: name: National Jewish Book Award
publisher: Schocken Books Inc