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more about #hermanrosenblat more comments → iplaudius: “This is the most important memory I’ve collected. [beat] It is also a lie.” Destroy the seven horcruxes, else Hitler and the Deathe... more » DahlELama: What kills me is that this guy lied--not about being in a concentration camp, something relatively few people still alive today can discuss with the s... more » lobstr: Bah.. so many things were so unfeasible about his story -- anyone who was in a concentration camp would say WTF to his claiming that he had the unadul... more » Claire Buoyant: We can still throw apples at him, you know. Hard. more » SpyMagician: So who are these movie producers? And are they doing a movie on his delusional rescue fantasies? more » ambitious: What's up with their eyes????? more » StonedAndDethroned: Fuck, old people are dumb. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: He would have had more success if hadn't spent so much money on the dental work. more » cdmunch: Thank god, when I saw the photo I thought this was going to be another piece on elder sex. more » depardoo: Will this gentleman soon be interning at Gawker's offices? more » HiredGoons: Well, to be fair The United States did invade Iraq based on similar logic. more » naugahydeinplainsight: As a veteran of the Nixon White House, Diane Sawyer shouldn't be quite so shocked when someone can't separate self-serving fantasy from reality. more » SultanaEleusis: In my imagination, I was elected president of the United States in 2004, promptly wound up the Iraq War and received the Nobel Peace Prize. Then I en... more » iplaudius: He may not be a Muslim chimpanzee who wrote bad stimulus package and then cut his wife’s head off, but I expect more from Jews. more » RufusV2: My entire life happens in my imagination and it's just as real to me as your so-called "real" experiences are to any of you. more » -
#wtf
Lying Holocaust Author Recounts Tale of Thing That Never Happened
So here's Herman Rosenblat, who admitted months ago to fabricating his book about his wife throwing apples to him over a concentration camp fence, telling two movie producers the story, as though it's true. WTF? More » -
#books
Holocaust Love Liar Gets His (Fake) Story Told
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. More » -
#television
Diane Sawyer Flabbergasted By Holocaust Love Liar
This morning's Good Morning America interview of Herman Rosenblat, the big liar author of fabricated Holocaust love story and 'memoir' Angels at the Fence, is even more entertaining than the earlier leaked footage. More » -
#books
Lying Holocaust Author To Turn Novelist
Capitalizing on Herman Rosenblat's infamy, a small upstate publisher eagerly trumpeted its "serious discussion" to publish Rosenblat's fake memoir as fiction. Or "to pull a Frey," in industry lingo. More » -
#hoaxes
Oprah Deigns to Acknowledge Herman Rosenblat Hoax
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! More » -
#angelatthefence
Exclusive: Excerpts of the Fake Holocaust Memoir
We got our hands on Angel At The Fence, Herman Rosenblat's fabricated book about a little girl who threw apples over a concentration camp fence. It's as hesitant as you might expect.
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#books
Lying Holocaust Author Ruins It for the Children
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. More » -
#fakebooks
Oprah Winfrey's Liars Club
What's the one thing nearly every fake memoir scandal seems to have in common? From James Frey to Angel at the Fence, if a story is bullshit, chances are Oprah was there first. More » -
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#fakememoirs
Lying Holocaust Author Says He's Sorry, Keeps Movie
After seeing the release of his memoir cancelled, Herman Rosenblat apologized, saying he lied about a girl tossing apples over the fence of his concentration camp because he wanted "to bring happiness to people." More » -
#books
Holocaust Memoir Cancelled to Save Oprah's Heart
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. -
#books
Maybe-Fake Holocaust Memoirist to Break Oprah's Heart
Uh-oh: Oprah fell in love with another memoirist, and we all know what happened last time. Herman Rosenblat has twice been on her show for his touching story of the Holocaust and long-lost love. More »
