Wilkomirski, Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood

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Wilkomirski's memoir is a beautiful page-turner that stimulates thought-provoking ideas, questions, and explanations on ethnic cleansing in extermination camps in Germany. It draws the reader in with a clear illustration of Wilkomirski's early childhood and his family's struggles living in Nazi's death camps. This literary work is profoundly moving and morally essential to explore the historical injustices still profoundly rooted in the ancient world. This memoir is insightful and provides sufficient information on how our childhood plays a pivotal role in impacting our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. However, the memoir's authenticity and the author's legitimacy as a child survivor of the Holocaust are questionable. Some of the books' precepts appear to be a hoax or a delusion. On further analysis, Wilkomirski is exposed as an imposter, and the author of the memoir is identified as Bruno Dossekker. I found this book to be well-articulated and have lit...