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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood Paperback – September 23, 1997

by Binjamin Wilkomirski (Author), Carol Brown Janeway (Translator)
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

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). Translated form the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

"This sunning and austerely written work is so profoundly moving, so morally important, and so free from literary artifice of any kind at all that I wonder if I even have the right to try to offer praise."--Jonathan Kozol, The Nation
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  1. Print length
    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Schocken
  4. Publication date
    September 23, 1997
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    080521089X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0805210897
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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). Translated form the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schocken (September 23, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 080521089X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805210897
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 26 ratings

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katherine edmiston
5.0 out of 5 stars Notable Holocaust account
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2024
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One of the most literary, and harrowing, Holocaust accounts. He leaves you with images that will haunt you forever. A tremendous accomplishment, for one of the most difficult things is to adequately express the nature of this most extreme atrocity & worst depravity in history.
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Isaak Courtright
3.0 out of 5 stars A "meh" story
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2023
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This book tells the story of a young child who went through the Holocaust. The story overall really isn't that bad, but it's very disorganized and jarring; while trying to accurately tell this story through the eyes of a child, it is very easy to get confused. This makes the story rather hard to follow. If I didn't have to read this for a class, I wouldn't have.

SPOILER WARNING: for those who are looking for Holocaust memoirs and real, historical accounts, this book is not it. Shortly after it got released, it was revealed that this novel is not from a Holocaust survivor, but rather someone who believes they went through it, despite never living in Europe.
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Amanda O'Neill
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing story
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2017
Binjamin Wilkomirski spent the majority of his childhood in Majdanek death camp outside Lublin, Poland in the book Fragments. Binjamin Wilkomirski talks about some of the daily terror he had to witness and endure, like starving babies who eat the ends of their own fingers, His father was killed in front of him at the age of 3 “they’ve put the man against the wall next to the front gate. The uniforms climb noisily onto a transport that’s parked on the street. They wave their arms in the air, swing sticks, make faces of terrible rage. And they keep yelling something that sounds like “killim, killim, killim.” he was also separated from his family which he barely remembers. Everything he has ever known is from the death camps; he didn’t know what a mother is. He also doesn’t know his native language “I have no mother tongue, nor father tongue either. My language has its roots in the yiddish of my eldest brother, Mordechai, overlaid with the babel-babble of an assortment of children’s barracks in the nazis’ death camps in Poland.”Fragments is a 152 page ride through the sadness and fright of the Holocaust, but in the eyes of a child who knows nothing more than that. I recommend this book for someone interested in the history of the holocaust and someone able to stomach reading graphic stories. I loved the story, it was very sad and it showed the terror these people had to go though in the death camps. It’s just remarkable someone could live through all of that, and all I could think about at the end was that they are true survivors. The torture really ended these memories and must haunt them everyday.
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patrick regan
1.0 out of 5 stars belonging to a nice Swiss-catholic family and attending good schools with all the ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2014
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This book will take you through all the brutality and depravity that was the Holocaust. From Dead children to lives lived in literal piles of excrement, this book truly offers a brutal first hand account of the holocaust from a child's perspective. However,this book does have one little flaw...It is a complete and utter fabrication. The man who wrote it never saw a concentration camp nor any of the suffering that he claimed to have lived through. Not only was he not Jewish he didn't even live in an occupied territory during the war, belonging to a nice Swiss-catholic family and attending good schools with all the comforts of life. At best the author is insane at worst he is a shameless charlatan, praying on humanity's repulsion of the NAZI crimes and the empathy for there victims and exploiting it to sell books. This is a good story as long as you are aware going into it that THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION!!!!!!!!! My low rating was due to this fact that I was not informed of the treachery until after reading it, so hopefully this knowledge helps you to better enjoy and learn from the story.
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Mary E. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars Fragments
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2011
Binjamin was a very young child when he was sent to a concentration camp. Despite his youth and his inexperience, he was able to survive the atrocities and horrors of World War II.

I have read the reviews, and the articles about this being a fictionalized story. However, I must say that it is well written, engaging and intriguing. Many scholarly articles suggest that Binjamin himself truly believes the fiction he has created. As such, I am not outraged about this story. Many horrible things happened during World War II. If his memories are not reality then he is a troubled individual, one who perhaps survived different horrors, and does not deserve scorn but rather compassion.
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Anike Hamilton-Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2018
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It may not be a true story but it’s beautifully written
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kevin reape
1.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2013
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Didn't like this book at all it's was difficult to get into the book and the book was all over the place
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