Wilkomirski the victim: Individual remembering as social interaction and public event

Focusing on the power and seduction of culturally spread images, Maechler describes how, over the course of his life, Binjamin Wilkomirski acquired his memories and ultimately came to publish his autobiography. He examines how social interactions and social context play a fundamental role in his invented narrative and how he used the mythological power of the Holocaust to create a convincing autobiography.