Publisher's Synopsis
As a young boy, Binjamin Wilkomirski witnessed horror and human cruelty at its most extreme. Or not. He survived the Nazi death camps of Poland: Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Or not. He saw his own father killed. Or not. He saw starving babies gnaw their fingers to the bone and rats jump from the heaped corpses of women. Or not. He was a Jew in the worst time and place to be Jewish in history. Or not. Since its publication in 1995, Wilkomirski's memoir of his childhood has been celebrated as one of the most powerful literary accounts of the Holocaust. But now the clouds of scepticism are gathering . Was the author anywhere near a death camp during the war? Was he a Jew? Has he made it all up?
