Binjamin Wilkomirski
Auteur de Fragments. Une enfance, 1939-1948
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Œuvres de Binjamin Wilkomirski
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Dössekker, Bruno (Nom d'adoption)
- Autres noms
- Grosjean, Bruno (Nom de naissance)
- Date de naissance
- 1941-02-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Suisse
- Lieu de naissance
- Biel, Suisse
- Lieux de résidence
- Zurich, Suisse
Thurgovie, Suisse - Professions
- Professeur (Musique)
Clarinettiste
Fabricant d'instuments de musique - Organisations
- concert musician
instrument maker - Courte biographie
- Imposteur, Usurpateur et fabricant de fausse mémoire sur une pseudo enfance au coeur de l'holocauste et du système concentrationnaire nazi.
L'auteur Binjamin Wilkomirski (pseudonyme) né le 12 février 1941 à Biel en Suisse d'une mère suisse atteinte de légers troubles psychiques sous le nom de Bruno Grosjean. Sa mère renonçant à ses droits maternels, il est confié à l'assistance sociale et est placé dans plusieurs familles puis un foyer. Le docteur Walter Dösseker et son épouse Martha le recueille le 13 octobre 1945 puis l'adopte définitivement le 4 octobre 1957. Après des études classiques, il commence des études de médecine à Genève avant de se tourner vers une formation de musicien et luthier. Il épouse une suisse, Annette en 1964. Le couple qui a trois enfants se sépare ensuite. En 1982, il rencontre une chanteuse d'opéra dans l'école de musique ou il enseigne. Son mal-être (Sic) le pousse à suivre une thérapie et coucher sur papier des "scènes de sa petite enfance" remplies des "horrreurs endurées".
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En 1995 paraît - chez l'éditeur Suhrkamp - son livre Bruchstücke. Aus einer Kindheit, 1939-1948 signé Binjamin Wilkomirski. L'ouvrage suscite aussitôt l'engouement du public, la version originale est traduite en douze langues. Il est publié par Calmann Lévy en janvier 1997 sous le titre "Fragments. Une enfance 1939-1948". L'ouvrage obtient de multiples distinctions et l'auteur voyage au gré des sollicitations.
La véracité de l'ouvrage avait déjà fait l'objet d'un avertissement à l'éditeur par le journaliste Hanno Helbling, avant parution. L'éditeur Suhrkamp avait alors demandé quelques informations complémentaires et avis, jugeant le texte authentique. En 1998, un autre journaliste suisse, Daniel Ganzfried, fils de rescapés des camps fait paraître les conclusions de son enquête dans le journal suisse Die Weltwoche et concluent à une imposture : l'auteur n’a jamais vécu à Riga, n’a pas passé sa petite enfance en Pologne, et n’a pas été déporté.
Bruno Dössekker réfute l'accusation pour ce qu’il tient comme fausses allégations. Toutefois, des compléments d'information et des analyses du texte par des historiens réputés et reconnus dont Raul Hilberg pour l'hebdomadaire "Die Zeit" amènent à souligner les nombreuses incohérences et improbabilités (Lieux, faits, vocabulaire, ...). L'auteur réfute encore. Un test ADN lui est imposé en 2001 qui comparé à l'ADN de l’un des enfants de son père biologique. Le test est positif. L'auteur continue toutefois de nier.
. Entre temps, fin 1999, tous les éditeurs auront retirés l'ouvrage de la vente.
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Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood. Trans.… par Binjamin Wilkomirski
Another book on the holocaust but from the eyes of a boy who lived in a death camp. A simple book I picked up in Cape Town but beautifully written although translated from German.
½Binjamin was a very young child when he was sent to a concentration camp. Despite his youth and his inexperience, he was able to survive the atrocities and horrors of World War II.
I have read the reviews, and the articles about this being a fictionalized story. However, I must say that it is well written, engaging and intriguing. Many scholarly articles suggest that Binjamin himself truly believes the fiction he has created. As such, I am not outraged about this story. Many horrible things happened during World War II. If his memories are not reality then he is a troubled individual, one who perhaps survived different horrors, and does not deserve scorn but rather compassion.… (plus d'informations)
I have read the reviews, and the articles about this being a fictionalized story. However, I must say that it is well written, engaging and intriguing. Many scholarly articles suggest that Binjamin himself truly believes the fiction he has created. As such, I am not outraged about this story. Many horrible things happened during World War II. If his memories are not reality then he is a troubled individual, one who perhaps survived different horrors, and does not deserve scorn but rather compassion.… (plus d'informations)
Note: This review and most others will be spoilers. To get the full impact of this book, read it first, and, only afterward, read the reviews.
This is probably the most devastating account of the Holocaust I have ever read. I think that whatever I say about this book probably will not give it enough justice.
Fragments is the account, in bits and pieces, of a child survivor of the Majdanek death camp during World War II. It has taken the author many years to piece through the truth of that time, but he tells his story through the eyes of a child. He was only three or four years old when he was thrust by himself into this world of horror. The ideas and thoughts that he formed from seeing incredible brutality affected his psyche even after his so-called “liberation” from Nazi persecution. The most heartrending part of this book for me, oddly enough, was the part about young Binjamin’s re-entry into the world outside of the concentration camp.
As the granddaughter of maternal grandparents who died in the ovens of Auschwitz, I grew up in an atmosphere in which my parents never told me anything disturbing about their family related to the Holocaust. How doubly sad, then, it must have been for young Binjamin, who actually endured this fiendish world, to never have been allowed to or felt free enough to talk about his enduring fears even after his “liberation”.
This is a troubling book. Beware, if you choose to read it, that it contains unbearable cruelty. Yet know in your hearts that this is not fiction.
Addendum: It was only after I finished reading this book that I remembered why I got it in the first place. The book was found out to be, not the biography of the author, but a hoax. Truthfully, I'm glad I didn't remember this at the time I read it. In other words, I had the full impact of the story from a personal point of view. As in shades of James Frey's book, A Milllion Little Pieces, the public's outrage has come to the forefront to decry the success of this book. Oddly enough, even though Wilkomirski's story is fiction, I'm pretty certain that the feelings of the victims of the Holocaust, had they been children or adults, were not far from those of young Binjamin in this story.… (plus d'informations)
This is probably the most devastating account of the Holocaust I have ever read. I think that whatever I say about this book probably will not give it enough justice.
Fragments is the account, in bits and pieces, of a child survivor of the Majdanek death camp during World War II. It has taken the author many years to piece through the truth of that time, but he tells his story through the eyes of a child. He was only three or four years old when he was thrust by himself into this world of horror. The ideas and thoughts that he formed from seeing incredible brutality affected his psyche even after his so-called “liberation” from Nazi persecution. The most heartrending part of this book for me, oddly enough, was the part about young Binjamin’s re-entry into the world outside of the concentration camp.
As the granddaughter of maternal grandparents who died in the ovens of Auschwitz, I grew up in an atmosphere in which my parents never told me anything disturbing about their family related to the Holocaust. How doubly sad, then, it must have been for young Binjamin, who actually endured this fiendish world, to never have been allowed to or felt free enough to talk about his enduring fears even after his “liberation”.
This is a troubling book. Beware, if you choose to read it, that it contains unbearable cruelty. Yet know in your hearts that this is not fiction.
Addendum: It was only after I finished reading this book that I remembered why I got it in the first place. The book was found out to be, not the biography of the author, but a hoax. Truthfully, I'm glad I didn't remember this at the time I read it. In other words, I had the full impact of the story from a personal point of view. As in shades of James Frey's book, A Milllion Little Pieces, the public's outrage has come to the forefront to decry the success of this book. Oddly enough, even though Wilkomirski's story is fiction, I'm pretty certain that the feelings of the victims of the Holocaust, had they been children or adults, were not far from those of young Binjamin in this story.… (plus d'informations)
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SqueakyChu | 5 autres critiques | Oct 1, 2010 |
SqueakyChu | 5 autres critiques | Oct 1, 2010 | published in 1995 as a supposed child survivor memoir of life in majdanek & birkenau; exposed as fraudulent some time later. at the same time i got the book debunking the "facts" of wilkomirski (aka bruno grosjean)'s life -- fascinating to read them together.
1 sushi105 | 5 autres critiques | Jun 24, 2010 |
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