A Famous Lecturer

He became an international celebrity with the American Holocaust Museum and attended many Holocaust survivor meetings, symposiums and TV documentaries.

Laura Grabowski Verified Wilkomirski  Story

Laura Grabowski claimed  she and  Wilkomirski  were both child survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau and were experimented on by the infamous Dr. Mengele. She claimed that she was liberated from this camp, brought to the US after World War II and adopted by a Gentile couple at the age of nine or ten. 

As "" she described the candy jars she saw in the laboratory of the Nazi doctors who gave her injections. Laura Grabowski found acceptance in a Los Angeles support group for Holocaust survivors who were children during the war. Naomi Pfefferman, also known as Laura Grabowski. She performed a concert with Mr. Wilkomirski at a Los Angeles synagogue for which she composed an "Ode to the Little Ones;" that concert was taped by the BBC.

Binjamin Writes His Memoirs

The story of the literary hoax perpetrated by Binjamin Wilkomirski has been widely rehearsed. In 1995, he published a memoir, Fragments, telling of the relentless cruelty he suffered as a child survivor of the Nazi concentration camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz. He described being smuggled into a Swiss orphanage and eventually adopted by a bourgeois Swiss family who conspired, in league with the rest of Swiss society, to erase his Jewish past and suppress his memories of the camps. But Wilkomirski is haunted by inchoate memories and only when he enters therapy, in his fifties, and then begins to visit concentration camps as a tourist, is he able to reconstruct them in the form they appear in Fragments.

Zionist Publishing House Applauds The Literary Giant

Eva Koralnik, shepherded Mr. Wilkomirski's bogus Fragments into publication with astonishing speed.

Wilkomirski's Lawyer Writes A Book

 Mr. Wilkomirski's  Swiss lawyer sues him when he learned the book was a fake-not just to recover the cost of the book, but because he had been "maliciously tricked into feeling sympathy for this topic."

Another Holocaust Fleabag Arrested

In August 1998 Swiss author Daniel Ganzfried, wrote an article in Swiss newsweekly Weltwoche where he exposed Wilmomirski. He submitted to a DNA test, and was exposed as a charlatan.