Holocaust Memoir Author Admits Fake.
Israel Faxx, March, 2008
By Israel Faxx News Services
The author of a best-selling Holocaust memoir admitted she made up the story. Misha Defonseca, a Belgian writer living in Massachusetts, also acknowledged in a statement given by her lawyers to The Associated Press that she is not Jewish.
Defonseca said "Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years" came straight from her imagination. The book was translated into 18 languages and was being readied for publication in the United States.
She was under pressure to issue a statement about her book after a genealogical researcher in Waltham, Mass., began to unearth discrepancies in the unpublished U.S. version. "This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving," Defonseca said in the...
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