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82: Haunted
Act Two

Act Two

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Binjamin Wilkomirski and New York writer Blake Eskin try and figure out if they are related.

NOTE: A few years after this interview aired, Binjamin Wilkomirski and his Holocaust memoir Fragments were shown to be fabrications. Blake Eskin chronicled this story in his 2002 book A Life In Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. (20 minutes)

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