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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