PORNOGRAPHIC PAST vs MURDEROUS PRESENT
There are some who not only cling on to the memory of the Holocaust but even derive some satisfaction by making up stories about the Holocaust. On the other hand, they are the witnesses of an ongoing holocaust in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. As writer and musician Gilad Atzmon points out, “We also witness Israel preparing itself to nuke Iran in the name of Jewish history and the Holocaust in particular.”
“Why would any writer make up stories about the Holocaust?” asks Melissa Katsoulis on mainstream British media outlet The Independent.
Katsoulis has recently published a book about the history of literary hoaxes. She is interested in particular in a unique fictional genre; namely ‘the Holocaust hoaxers’.
On the one hand, she confesses that “special privilege must be given to those increasingly few witness-writers who survived the Second World War in Europe.” She is even willing to accept Elie Wiesel’s peculiar take on ‘truth and fiction’, that “some stories are true that never happened.”
On the other hand she says, “those memoirists who think that they can pretend they were there when they weren’t ought to remember that hijacking the experiences of others for selfish ends will only end in ignominy.”
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