The German publisher of a Holocaust memoir whose authenticity has been called into doubt demanded written proof of the allegations against the book. Critics allege that Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose “Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood” won a National Jewish Book Award after it was published in English in 1996, is not a Latvian Jew who survived two concentration camps, but the son of a Swiss Protestant mother who was later adopted by a Swiss couple.
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