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I am glad that not all critics are mesmerised by youngish authors, ones who have gleaned all their Holocaust material from books written by others. These opportunists have not, in their hubris, managed to overshadow the people, some of whom are still alive, who were actually inmates of these horrible camps, or otherwise victims of Nazism, through their families or friends.

So I think we should turn our backs on the young careerists writing their 800-page tomes, and read novels, stories, diary accounts or memoirs by Primo Levi, Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, J?rgen Kieler, Edgar Weinberg, Elie Wiesel, Johan Borgen, Simon Vestdijk, Paul Celan, Anne Frank, Imre Kert?sz, Etty Hillesum, Abraham Sutzkever, Ir?ne N?mirovsky, and hundreds of others, Jews, goyim, gypsies, Poles, Germans, Balts, Romanians, Dutch people, Danes, Norwegians, whatever.

I do not know what is wrong with our generation that we can't be bothered with the fiction or non-fiction written by people who were actually there in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Klooga, Salaspils, Grini, Solibor, Porta Westphalica, Stutthof, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Westerbork, etc., etc., or fought in the Resistance against the Nazis, but keep on getting mesmerised by yet another fiction-wielding charlatan who is using, exploiting, the Holocaust to write bestsellers and make a literary career for himself out of the horrible sufferings and deaths of others.

Everyone is up in arms because one Catholic bishop has denied the Holocaust, a few years after a nutty historian did so, yet people seem to prefer the Hollywood-tinged semi-fictional accounts by people who never experienced the horrors at first hand to the real thing.