Search archive Receive updates Enter your email address to receive regular updates about NS and related events. To unsubscribe, click here Mistaken identities An Aids sufferer whose symptoms were fake. A Holocaust victim who was never in a death camp. Rebecca Abrams measures the fine line between private lives and public fictions It is only a small book, but everyone who has read Fragments agrees that it makes a big impact. It has won awards and acclaim worldwide.
Fragments is the exquisite though harrowing account of a childhood ripped apart by the Holocaust.
The author, Binjamin Wilkomirski, was two or three years old when he was brutally separated from his family in Riga. He was taken to Majdanek concentration camp, where he witnessed, endured and somehow survived the most terrifying ordeals. After the war, he ended up in an orphanage in Switzerland and was eventually adopted by a Swiss couple, who showed no understanding of what he had been through. They demanded that he stifle all knowledge of his former life. Wilkomirski recounts his horrific experiences in a fluid, shifting narrative related as if through the child's eyes.