Customer Reviews

Fragments

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This book was an incredible account of a torturous childhood. Binjamin led a very nontypical life as a child, never knowing his parents and never knowing how many brothers he had. Binjamin does not even know his birthday; he had to guess. Binjamin's story is told in "fragments" as the title suggests; he has written his autobiography through a child's eyes, and you feel as though you are actually a young child experiencing what he is going through. His memoirs of the Holocaust are haunting, and it is astonishing to think that humans acutally did these terrible things to other human beings. Binjamin had a brush with death plenty of times, and he was not afraid to stand up for himself and spit on or bite a guard when he made Binjamin mad. I would recommend this book to anyone because i think everyone can get something out of it. Binjamin's story is unlike any other.

It was discovered by the publisher (Schoken) that this book was ... presented as the memoire of a Holocaust survivor. The story is told in another book also published by Schoken, "The Wilkomirski Affair" by Stefan Machler et al.

I would give it no stars, but the ... system requires at least one.

A horrifying retelling of the events in a young jewish boys life. Binjamin Wilkomirski was placed in a nazi death camp as a very young boy. This book tells the fragments of his memory that have stayed with him.