A German publisher withdrew a highly acclaimed Holocaust memoir whose authenticity has been questioned. The withdrawal of Benjamin Wilkomirski’s “Fragments” comes amid reports that a draft of a study commissioned by his agent indicates that Wilkomirski was a Christian child who lived in Switzerland during World War II and not a Jewish orphan who survived concentration camps, as he claims in the book.
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