A number of Wiesenthal's books contain conflicting stories and tales, many of which were invented.
[1][2] Several authors, including Segev
[1] and British author
Guy Walters,
[2] feel that Wiesenthal's autobiographies are not reliable sources of information about his life and activities. For example, Wiesenthal would describe two people fighting over one of the lists he had prepared of survivors of the Holocaust; the two look up and recognise each other and have a tearful reunion. In one account it is a husband and wife,
[128] and in another telling it is two brothers.
[129] Wiesenthal's memoirs variously claim he had spent time in as many as eleven concentration camps; the actual number was five.
[130] A drawing he made in 1945 that he claimed was a scene he witnessed in Mauthausen had actually been sketched from photos that appeared in
Life magazine that June.