False and Embellished Holocaust Testimony
False and Embellished Holocaust Testimony
This chapter studies false and embellished Holocaust testimonies. In Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments and Bernard Holstein's Stolen Soul, the authors appear to be genuinely delusional about their childhood experiences and the historical context in which these took place. In relation to embellished testimonies, Deli Strummer attributes the inaccuracies in her recall in A Reflection of the Holocaust to the overwhelming nature of camp existence. Martin Gray's account in his For Those I Loved, which consists of his deportation to and taking part in the revolt in the death camp Treblinka, contains anomalies in his description of the camp. In his An Angel at the Fence, Herman Rosenblat added an invented element of romantic salvation to the real story of his survival from the concentration camp of Buchenwald as a teenager. While a Holocaust narrative serves as redemption for the loss of her parents during the war, only Misha Defonseca eventually confessed that her highly successful testimony in Surviving with Wolves was made up.
Keywords: Binjamin Wilkomirski, Fragments, Bernard Holstein, Stolen Soul, Deli Strummer, A Reflection of the Holocaust, Martin Gray, For Those I Loved, Misha Defonseca, Surviving with Wolves
Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
