Fragments, Memories of a
Childhood 1939-l948 was published in l996. In this book the author, Binjamin Wilkomirski,
relates that he was born a Jew in Latvia, was separated from his parents at age three, was sent to Auschwitz
where he endured living hell. The book received numerous awards and was added
to the extensive holocaust selection of the M. Senior High School Library.
There was no Jew Binjamin Wilkomirski, there was however a Swiss gentile, Bruno
Berthe, adopted by the family Doessekker. Binjamin Wilkomirski/Bruno Doessekker
is an imposter and his story a fraud. I do not claim that Henry G. who gave his
Holocaust survivor talk at the M. Campus/UW (10/14/2004) is an imposter like
Wilkomirski or that his book Ragdolls is a fraud. But there is much in his
story which is not true. For example Mr. G. relates that he was shipped from
Czestochowa/Poland to Buchenwald/Germany. At Buchenwald he “saw” a sign on the
chimney The only way out of this camp is through this chimney. There was no
such sign and no gas chamber at Buchenwald. And no, Ilse Koch did not make lampshades out of the tattooed skins of
prisoners. I recommend a course in continuing holocaust education for Mr. G. in order for him to learn which atrocity
tales have been dropped from the official holocaust lore. I strongly suspect
that Mr. G. never was at Buchenwald. At the end of the war the inmates were
shipped from East to West. His claim that he was shipped from Poland to Germany
made sense, but not his subsequent transfer from West to East, namely from
Buchenwald/Germany to
Theresienstadt/Czechoslovakia. Direct transfer from Czestochowa to Theresienstadt. is more
likely.
I have an advice for the Social Justice
Group. Next time pick somebody more plausible than a Mr. G.