An MSU professor is one of the lead skeptics to disprove a much-touted memoir of a budding romance in a Nazi concentration camp.
This week, it was revealed that author Herman Rosenblat lied about meeting his wife of 50 years, Roma, during the Holocaust. The story was to be the subject of a memoir slated for February and a motion picture deal, according to an MSU press release.
But the research of MSU Director of Jewish Studies Kenneth Waltzer and others proved the memoir false.
“I am saddened by the whole thing,” Waltzer 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.
“All the more important, then, to have real memoirs that tell of real experience in the camps.”
Penguin Berkley Press announced it will not publish Rosenblat’s “Angel at the Fence” and wants Rosenblat’s advance payment back, according to the press release.
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