Wilkomirski syndrome
Non-Jews presenting as Jewish Holocaust survivors
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Daniel Ganzfried, the journalist who broke the story about Wilkomirski, argues that the case should be seen as a product of a larger industry of Holocaust-related material and academic Holocaust studies, where economic incentives lead to the creation of material of little or no value. In addition to concern over the fraud acts themselves, many cases of false Holocaust stories are also criticized for enabling Holocaust denier claims as to the supposed falsification of the wider events of the genocide. Later cases that have been discussed in Germany as examples of the Wilkomirski syndrome include Fabian Wolff, Wolfgang Seibert, Peter Loth, and Marie Sophie Hingst.
Cases
Authors
- Marie Sophie Hingst
- Misha Defonseca
- Rosemarie Koczy
- Rosemarie Pence
- Laurel Rose Willson
Other public figures
- George Santos, falsely claimed his grandparents were Jewish Holocaust refugees
- Enric Marco, former member of Amical de Mauthausen
- Peter Loth (born 1943), a co-plaintiff in the trial against a former Stutthof concentration camp guard, claimed to have been born in the camp and subjected to medical experiments as a child.
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In media
In the 2007 film The Memory Thief, a young man grows obsessed with the Holocaust and begins to believe that he is a Holocaust survivor.