If people are going to write “memoirs” and lie in them, then they shouldn’t call it an autobiography. Call it a novel and save everyone a lot of time, trouble, embarrassment, and money.
Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat has just been dropped by his publishers, Berkley Books, after new reports show that his book Angel at the Fence, about how he met his future wife at a concentration camp was all a lie.
Rosenblat’s book was scheduled to come out in February but has now been canceled. A rep for the publishers said, “Berkley Books is canceling publication of Angel at the Fence after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat’s agent, Andrea Hurst. Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work.”
The 79 year-old Berkley lives in Miami with his wife, Roma Radzicky. The two became famous in the 1990s when he started talkigng about how he met his wife. According to the couple, the two met while he was a prisoner at a sub-camp of Buchenwald in Nazi Germany. Roma was a young Jewish girl whose family was pretending to be Christian and lived nearby the camp.
For months the two would meet at a barbed-wire fence and she’d sneak him in food. They then lost contact when he was transferred to another camp but the two met again in the 1950s when they were set up on a blind date in New York. They married soon after and have just recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Even Oprah Winfrey is a fan of the book, as she has interviews the couple two times over the past years. She even called their romance “the single greatest love story ├óΓé¼┬ª we’ve ever told on the air.” And their story even inspired a children’s book along with a film adaptation scheduled to begin next year.
But just like Oprah got deceived with James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces, the same has happened again. Even family and friends are jealous outraged by his lies and success from the book and story that even one of his brothers has stopped speaking to him.
Sad.
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