Best-selling Holocaust autobiography, Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years, turns out to be false.
Released over ten years ago, the story tells how the six-year-old Misha went looking for her parents (who had been taken to Auschwitz), and was saved from starvation by a pack of wolves, who accepted her as part of their family.
Now, after being presented with irrefutable evidence, Misha (real name, Monique De Wael) has admitted to making the whole thing up.
Monique claims that "it is not the true reality, but it is my reality." Huh?
Here's an idea; why not just label it 'fiction' in the first place and avoid the nasty tarnish to your karma?
[Via Independent]
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