A publisher withdrew the English translation of a highly acclaimed Holocaust memoir whose authenticity has been questioned. Schocken made its decision regarding Benjamin Wilkomirski’s “Fragments” after 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. The memoir, published in English in 1996, won a National Jewish Book Award.
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