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Best-Selling Holocaust Memoir is a Hoax!

By Bradley R. Smith ∙ March 1, 2008

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March 1, 2008

Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, by Misha Defonseca a best-selling Holocaust book in which the author claimed to live with a pack of wolves in order to elude the Nazis turns out to be nothing but a pack of lies. Accepted by the gullible media and general public who have been taught to accept even the most absurd Holocaust tales as fact, Defonesca's book was translated in 18 languages and even has been made into a feature film in France, one of several countries that has outlawed objective revision of the Holocaust story.

The publishers of the book did not investigate any of the “facts” of this book when they decided to publish it. Only after a devastating lawsuit was launched did the publisher investigate and determine that Defonesca was lying about the entire tale. Defonesca not only made up the Wolf-pack story but even that she was Jewish.

Links to the World Press

  • Writer admits Holocaust book is not true http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_re_us/holocaust_book_hoax_3
  • Why did it take so long for a far-fetched Holocaust memoir to be debunked?
  • Holocaust story invented, says author Misha Defonseca
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  • Writer Says Holocaust 'Memoir' Not True

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    This is London – London, England, UK
  • Yesterday Misha Defonseca (real name Monique De Wael) admitted that her bestseller, Misha – A Memoir Of The Holocaust Years, was made up. …
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  • Bite Size News
    Bostonist – Boston,MA,USA
    [WCVB] –An author from Dudley, Misha Defonseca, has admitted that she made up a best-selling memoir of her struggle to survive during the Holocaust. …
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  • Adopted by wolves? Bestselling memoir was a pack of lies
    Independent – London,England,UK
    By Rachel Shields At just six years old, Misha Defonseca trudged across three countries to try to find her Jewish parents who had been carted off to…
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  • Den of lies
    Boston Globe – United States
    But that is what happened with the memoir of Misha Defonseca, a heartwarming Holocaust-era tale that has turned out to be a fake. The publisher, Jane Daniel …
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  • 'Surviving With Wolves' Author Calls Tale Fiction, Soir Says
    Bloomberg – USA
    29 (Bloomberg) — Misha Defonseca, the Belgian author whose bestselling autobiography described how wolves adopted her after the Nazis deported her Jewish …
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  • Rowling tries to ban Potter book
    Irish Independent – Dublin, Ireland
    Misha Defonseca's book 'Misha, a Memoir of the Holocaust Years' has just been made into a successful film. A body found in the river Seine is believed to be …
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  • For Hoax Memoirs, Nothing's Hotter than the Holocaust
    By Margaret Soltan
    Defonseca wrote in her book that Nazis seized her parents when she was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe alone for four years. She claimed she found herself trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, killed a Nazi …
    University Diaries – http://www.margaretsoltan.com/
  • What do you mean it's not true?!?
    By Brant(Monique Ringling)
    A story this week by Melissa Trujillo of the Associated Press detailed the crumbling facade of one Misha Defonseca, author of the international best-seller “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years.” In the book, Defonseca, a Belgian now …
    View on the News – http://viewonthenews.blogspot.com/
  • Holocaust wolf memoir a fake, author admits – How many other …
    By Freedom Warrior(Freedom Warrior)
    Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years (also known as Survivre avec les Loups) by Misha Defonseca was translated into 18 languages during the 1990s and made into a feature film in France. Misha Defonseca, left, and co-author Vera Lee …
    New World Order 101 – http://www.nwo101.com/
  • Writer Says Holocaust 'Memoir' Not True (orange blossom special)
    Misha Defonseca's book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France. Her two Brussels-based lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author …
    SubChat.com: OTChat – http://www.subchat.com/otchat/otchat.asp
  • Another FAKE, a HOAX, a Fantasy
    Belgian writer Misha Defonseca says her best-selling book about her horrific childhood was an elaborate fantasy she kept repeating, even as book was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France …
    Clipmarks | Live Clips – http://clipmarks.com/
  • Author of Holocaust book admits it is not true – Israel Jewish …
    Ynet Jewish Scene: Belgian writer Misha Defonseca says her best-selling book about her horrific childhood was an elaborate fantasy she kept repeating,…
  • Misha defonseca – Related stories from Haaretz.com
    misha defonseca. … 29.2.2008 | 21:22 Reuters. Woman who said was saved from Nazis by wolves admits fabrications.
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  • Bradley R. Smith

    Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.

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