Berikut berita beberapa kebohongan tentang Holocaust seperti cerita Herman Rosenblat yang mengaku bertemu dengan istrinya dari balik kawat kamp konsentrasi hingga menipu penerbit buku, Oprah Winfrey, dan jutaan penonton TV.
Kemudian ada lagi cerita seorang Yahudi yang ceritanya hidup bersama srigala ketika perang terjadi. Ternyata orang itu bukan Yahudi, tidak bersama srigala, dan tinggal di Belgia: === Other Holocaust memoirists have devised greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author of "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," pretended she was a Jewish girl who lived with wolves during the war, when she was actually a non-Jew who lived, without wolves, in Belgium. === Sepertinya banyak kebohongan tentang Holocaust yang katanya terjadi lebih dari 60 tahun lalu. Tapi kapan Oprah Winfrey akan menayangkan Holocaust baru di kamp konsentrasi terbesar di Gaza Palestina? Itu kejadian benar yang diliput di berbagai media massa dan masih betul2 hangat. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28391083/#storyContinued Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story Herman Rosenblat's 'Angel at the Fence' was slated for release in February Image: Herman and Roma Rosenblat Since going public with their story in the 1990s, Herman and Roma Rosenblat have been celebrated by Oprah Winfrey among others and have been the subject of a children's book, Laurie Friedman's "Angel Girl." View related photos J. Pat Carter / AP file Video How was Winfrey duped again? Dec. 30: A Holocaust-set book that Oprah Winfrey called one of the greatest true-love stories ever told has turned out to be a hoax. NBC’s Lee Cowan reports. Today show Special feature Image: Toni Morrison The lit list: Nobel Prize winners >From American author Toni Morrison to French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, meet the writers who have won the highest literary honor. 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"Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people," literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others, were taken by Rosenblat's story of love born on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp. "I question why I never questioned it. I believed it; it was an incredible, hope-filled story." Story continues below ↓advertisement | your ad here On Saturday, Berkley Books canceled Rosenblat's memoir, "Angel at the Fence." Rosenblat acknowledged that he and his wife did not meet, as they had said for years, at a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where she allegedly sneaked him apples and bread. The book was supposed to come out in February. 'I wanted to bring happiness' Rosenblat, 79, has been married to the former Roma Radzicky for 50 years, since meeting her on a blind date in New York. In a statement issued Saturday through his agent, he described himself as an advocate of love and tolerance who falsified his past to better spread his message. "I wanted to bring happiness to people," said Rosenblat, who now lives in the Miami area. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world." Rosenblat's believers included not only his agent and his publisher, but Oprah Winfrey, film producers, journalists, family members and strangers who ignored, or didn't know about, the warnings from scholars that his story didn't make sense. Other Holocaust memoirists have devised greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author of "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," pretended she was a Jewish girl who lived with wolves during the war, when she was actually a non-Jew who lived, without wolves, in Belgium. Historical records prove Rosenblat was indeed at Buchenwald and other camps. "How sad that he felt he had to embellish a life of surviving the Holocaust and of being married for half a century," said Holocaust scholar Michael Berenbaum. Video Holocaust love story is a lie Dec. 29: An author who penned a biographical love story amidst the holocaust has admitted he made it up. The Scoop's Courtney Hazlett reports. MSNBC 'This was ... miseducation' Publishing, the most trusting of industries, has again been burned by a memoir that fact-checking might have prevented. Berkley is an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), which in March pulled Margaret B. Jones' "Love and Consequences" after the author acknowledged she had invented her story of gang life in Los Angeles. Winfrey fell, as she did with James Frey, for a narrative of suffering and redemption better suited for television than for history. The damage is deep. Scholars and other skeptics as well as fellow survivors fear that Rosenblat's fabrications will only encourage doubts about the Holocaust. "I am very worried because many of us speak to thousands of student each year," says Sidney Finkel, a longtime friend of Rosenblat's and a fellow survivor. "We go before audiences. We tell them a story and now some people will question what I experienced." "This was not Holocaust education but miseducation," Ken Waltzer, director of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, said in a statement. "Holocaust experience is not heartwarming, it is heart rending. All this shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust," Waltzer said. "All the more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience in the camps." Film still in the works Among the fooled, at least the partially fooled, was Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Berenbaum had been asked to read the manuscript by film producer Harris Salomon, who still plans an adaptation of the book. Berenbaum's tentative support — "Crazier things have happened," he told The Associated Press last fall — was cited by the publisher as it initially defended the book. Berenbaum now says he saw factual errors, including Rosenblat's description of Theresienstadt, the camp from which he was eventually liberated, but didn't think of challenging the love story. "There's a limit to what I can verify, because I was not there," he says. "I can verify the general historical narrative, but in my research I rely upon the survivors to present the specifics of their existence with integrity. When they don't, they destroy so much and they ruin so much, and that's terrible." "I was burned," he added. 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