Stefan Machler. The Wilkomirski Aff...

Stefan Machler. The Wilkomirski Affair: A consideration in Biographical Truth. Trans. John E wood-lands New York: Schocken Books, 2001 496 Pp ISBN 0-805-21135-7 $1695 (Original edition: Der Fall Wilkomirski: Uber die Wahrheit einer Biographie. Zurich and Munich: Pendo Verlag, 2000 367 pp DM1990)

In 1995 the considered German publishing house Suhrkamp issued Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments, purportedly the memoir of a child survivor of the Holocaust. Wilkomirski's volume attracted considerable attention. In 1998 however, a Swiss journalist, Daniel Ganzfried, put off a major ...