| That is certainly the impression one receives from the memoir of Gustave Folcher. |
| His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek. |
| This memoir is as much about those miraculous rebirths as it is about what is lost. |
| Part of the problem stems from the book's function as a memoir of the author's personal quest to discover whether her father was a Klansman. |
| The story of his own and his mother's survival is recounted in his memoir with stunning visual detail. |
| Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir. |
