Another Holocaust Hoax?

Andrew Altschul bio ↓ · December 26th, 2008 · filed under books

What makes the Holocaust such a juicy target for literary exaggeration (or outright fabrication)? A new memoir about love in a concentration camp is drawing raised eyebrows from Holocaust scholars, but the author, Herman Rosenblat, responds that “”any memoir based on the memories of a survivor is verifiable only by him or her alone.”

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Andrew Altschul is the Books Editor of The Rumpus. He is the author of the novels Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His fiction and essays have appeared in many journals and magazines, and in anthologies including Best New American Voices and O. Henry Prize Stories. He lives in San Francisco. More from this author →

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