Best-Selling Holocaust Memoir is a Hoax!

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
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