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Boston, MA - Judge Rejects Suit over Fabricated Holocaust Memoir |
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Oct 09, 2008 at 10:04 PM
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Boston, MA - A woman who fabricated a best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust by living with wolves has won a Massachusetts court battle with her former publisher.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit today filed by publisher Jane Daniel against Misha Defonseca and her ghost writer. He said Daniel had missed a one-year statute of limitations.
Daniel sued this year after Defonseca admitted she made up the story of her tortured childhood in her 1997 book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years."
Daniel argued that the court should overturn a jury decision that forced her to pay Defonseca $32.4 million in a fight over the book's profits.
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Oct 10, 2008 at 01:49 AM simon Says:
this is unbeliveble
i bought the book and even gave it as a gift
and also recomended it for my friends
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Oct 10, 2008 at 01:46 AM heshy Says:
1) The publisher made money; who cares if the story was "dimyoinus"?
2) What schmuck would believe a "raised by wolves" story?
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Oct 10, 2008 at 05:41 AM simon Says:
the name off the book that i bhought was surviving with wolwes
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Oct 10, 2008 at 08:28 AM Anonymous Says:
this is a sensetive issue
*for all of those who went throught the holocaust its a shame and disturbing that she made up some story
*on the other hand maybe she she wrote things that did happen to someone (or many people from stories she heard)
*we read other made up stories by some great authors this may be in that same category
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Oct 10, 2008 at 05:45 PM bigwheeel Says:
“ 1) The publisher made money; who cares if the story was "dimyoinus"?
2) What schmuck would believe a "raised by wolves" story? ”
Every one wants to believe a story like that because they (we all) heard a similar story way back in our childhood. (at least this writer has!)
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Oct 10, 2008 at 05:43 PM REALITY CHECK Says:
The author isnt even a Jew... Bezras Hashem!!!
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Oct 11, 2008 at 05:00 PM Hudy Says:
“ The author isnt even a Jew... Bezras Hashem!!! ”
#6 The author isnt even a Jew... Bezras Hashem!!!
What is "Bezras Hashem" doing there? Did you perhaps want to write "Baruch Hashem"?