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Episode 5: Fact, Fiction and Finding Yourself

Andrew Romay
Memoir by Andrew Romay, written in 1995, including detailed recollections of his experience in the concentration camp of Balf near Budapest, of the death march to Mauthausen, and of the liberation of Mauthausen, LBI Collection ME 998.

The archive and library at LBI contain over 2000 memoirs. On this episode, Mark and literary critic Ruth Franklin, author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, discuss the line between fact and fiction in memoir writing and the evolution of Holocaust memoirs from firsthand accounts to books written by second and third generation authors.

LBI Presents is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York | Berlin and Antica Productions.

Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer.

Executive Producers include Laura Regehr, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producer is Emily Morantz. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson.