Posted on 12/28/2008 5:47:13 AM PST by Smokeyblue
A Holocaust survivor's amazing tale of romance - hailed by Oprah as "the single greatest love story in 22 years of doing this show" - is an outrageous fabrication, fellow camp survivors and experts told The Post. The group debunking the account hopes to prevent the memoir "Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love that Survived" from hitting stores in February and stop a movie that is already in the works.
Elan Steinberg, vice president of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendents, has asked Berkley Books to not print the tome, penned by Nazi death-camp survivor Herman Rosenblat, 79.
The retired TV repairman writes of his unlikely savior, a 9-year-old Jewish girl who would throw a starving 15-year-old Rosenblat apples over a barbed-wire fence at the Schlieben concentration camp, part of the Buchenwald death camp in Germany.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Call it fiction, problem solved.
Something like the British Press and the “hope changer”.
'HOLOCAUST SHAM SLAM'Abe Foxman, please pick up the White Courtesy Phone.
Now there's a true Holocaust survivor story!
Oprah is as big a fraud as that foreign born politician she supported during the last election.
I heard ‘Fake but Accurate’ is in this year.
Prima facie I don't see much reason to believe Steinberg over Rosennblat, or vice-versa. Storm in a teakettle. Much ado about nothing.
Au contraire, this is the best thing that could ever happen to this book, this author, and who knows who else. In the publishing business-- as in all entertainment business-- publicity is publicity. It's free advertising worth millions.
Bingo, may even have been planned that way. Who was it that said, “the only bad publicity is your obituary”?
You are right, one of the very few films to bring tears to my eyes.
Let the poor man have his fantasy if that is what he remembers. It won’t hurt anyone whether it’s true or not. It’s a lovely story.
> Au contraire, this is the best thing that could ever happen to this book, this author, and who knows who else. In the publishing business— as in all entertainment business— publicity is publicity. It’s free advertising worth millions.
(Big Grin!!) Fair enough — you’re quite right.
There’s a great line at the end of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” Seems to me that sage advice fits this case perfectly.
This whole thing smells like a marketing campaign to me.
This whole thing smells like a marketing campaign to me.
A comment from below the article:
“Enough of the Holocaust balony, it was 63 years ago. Move on!”
I don’t know whether or not to laugh or cry.
I don’t think Oprah was the only one fooled by this story. I recall these people being on several shows like 20/20 and Sunday Morning, etc. In fact, the story may have been posted here at FR. I know I heard it from another source than Oprah and never questioned it.
Amen to that. Okra has been fooled several times. IIRC, she even had one of those come back and made him / her apologize for fooling her.
Do you mean the one he made $600,000,000 on? I seem to remember Jewish groups and Rabbi’s complaining about it, so it was all over the news before it’s release.
1: They tried to kill us
2: We won
3: Let's eat.
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