After seeing the release of his memoir cancelled, Herman Rosenblat apologized, saying he lied about a girl tossing apples over the fence of his……Rosenblat’s inauthentic love story seems incredible given the number of fake memoirs that have come to light in the last few years... This…
The maybe-fake Holocaust memoir we told you about—by Herman Rosenblat, who says he married the girl who tossed him apples over the fence when he was a boy in a concentration camp—has been cancelled. Reports Publishers Weekly: "Berkley Books [a division of Penguin] is cancelling publication of…
Herman Rosenblat's touching story about reuniting with a holocaust survivor years after the war ended was a sham. Among the conned: the NY Post, Oprah, publishers. Now alchemized into fiction, the tale's finally going public. Presenting: The Apple, by Penelope Holt. Wait. Who? Penelope Holt is…
Infallible God that she is, Oprah never makes a mistake. No, what happens is that people make mistakes near her and then her gravitational pull forces them close to her. Like Herman Rosenblat's lying! Oprah herself still hasn't said anything about why she's so easy to lie to, including this fake…
Herman Rosenblat's whimsical concentration camp apple-tossing love story has been exposed as a lie—now, not only is the book cancelled and movie "rewritten" as fiction, but the already-published children's book is being pulled from shelves. According to Publisher's Weekly, the kid book author…
Eager to capitalize on Herman Rosenblat's infamy, a small upstate publisher is trumpeting its "serious discussion" to publish Rosenblat's fake memoir as fiction. Or as they say in the indusry, "to pull a Frey." York House Press in White Plains sent out a press release about the talks, then posted…
ABC confirms that Herman Rosenblat, the notorious fabricator behind Holocaust memoir Angels at the Fence, will appear on Good Morning America tomorrow. A preview of what he'll probably say, after the jump. A plugged-in tipster directed us to the freshly-uploaded YouTube video above, in which…
Well, I end the year with a mea culpa : I should have read the New Republic piece about Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat before piping up to defend him. But even after doing so, I agree most with this part of what one of the scholars who initially...(read more)
Ben , your response to my defense of Herman Rosenblat made me think that maybe my post was itself too inaccessible, so let me be clearer: My point wasn't that films about the Holocaust have been made in other countries, too. (Duh.) It was that the impulse...(read more)
Melinda , Herman Rosenblat may not need a lecture from us , but perhaps he needs one from fellow survivors. If he'd written a memoir about how he kept his sanity by imagining a girl tossing apples at him, that'd be one thing. And if he were delusional,...(read more)