Binjamin Wilkomirski

Binjamin Wilkomirski (born Bruno Grosjean in 1941, also known as Bruno Dössekker) in 1995 published the alleged memoirs Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. It included allegations of having been a prisoner at Majdanek and Auschwitz. The book became a major bestseller, was translated into twelve languages, and two documentary films were produced. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum sent Wilkomirski on a six-city United States fund-raising tour. It received the 1996 National Jewish Book Award for Autobiography and Memoir, while in Britain it was awarded the Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize, and in France the Prix Memoire de la Shoah. The book was promoted with teachers' study guides, other supplementary material, and the authors appeared in many schools.

In 1998, compelling evidence came to light exposing Wilkomirski’s memoir as a literary hoax.

External links

• Holocaust Survivor Memoir Exposed as Fraud
• Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined - discusses Binjamin Wilkomirski in section 4.4. "Testimonies in Literature and Media"

Note that besides the external sources listed here, an alleged Holocaust confessor/witness may be extensively discussed in the external sources listed in the articles on the particular Holocaust camps and/or other Holocaust phenomena the individual is associated with.