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March 01, 2008

When I Said I Lived With Wolves And Trekked Across Europe...

...as the orphaned child of Jews killed by the Nazis what I meant was I stayed in Brussels the whole time

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.

Misha Defonseca's book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France.

Her two Brussels-based lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack of wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II.

The author apologizes for any confusion that this may have caused.

Posted by Mr. Bingley at March 1, 2008 12:17 PM

Comments

More fake but accurate, huh?

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 1, 2008 01:40 PM

Huh?

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 1, 2008 06:13 PM

Across Europa with a pack of camels I could believe. But wolves? Never.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at March 1, 2008 06:17 PM

This reminds me of the time I had Osama Bin Laden cornered in a cave in Kerplunkistan...

Posted by: Tainted Bill at March 1, 2008 10:14 PM

What's really weird is Europeans say Americans are stupid Christian trailer trash.At least,we're not stupid enough to believe such a crazy book.
Europeans are naive children.Brain-washed by decades
of political correctness.

Posted by: greg newson at March 1, 2008 10:33 PM

People believed such a silly story? Shame on them. They probably really believe Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, too.

Posted by: Skyler at March 2, 2008 12:25 AM

I'll bet Studio Ghibli could do a good animated movie about that premise.

How the hell anyone believed it was a true story is beyond rational.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 2, 2008 01:33 AM

Hmmmmm.

Anybody remember that Rigoberta Menchu? She wrote a completely made up book, pretended it was autobiographical and STILL won the Nobel prize for literature *and* the Pulitzer *after* it was acknowledged that it was fake.

And, believe it or not, it's currently used as a textbook because, and I s**t you not, it should've been true.

...

As an aside I'm writing my autobiography of when I was abandoned at age 5 and had to survive on the melting artic ice cap with my brother the polar bear cub and our polar bear mother. I'm sad to say that my mother polar bear was shot and skinned by a Republican while my brother polar bear drowned because the ice all melted.

Oh and I did all this while naked at -70f degrees.

I expect my damn Nobel ASAP and no whining about it.

Posted by: memomachine at March 2, 2008 01:37 AM

Across Europa with a pack of camels I could believe.

All she had to do was walk a mile.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 2, 2008 01:42 AM

Across Europa with a pack of camels I could believe.

All she had to do was walk a mile.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 2, 2008 01:44 AM

Hmmmmmm......now I'm plagiarizing myself....

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 2, 2008 01:45 AM

Dork.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at March 2, 2008 05:09 PM

Double dork.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at March 2, 2008 05:47 PM

And, believe it or not, it's currently used as a textbook because, and I s**t you not, it should've been true.

Lord. That pretty much says it all about the New Left.

Posted by: Ken S, Fifth String on the Banjo of Life at March 2, 2008 05:49 PM

New left? Same left. Hopefully one day...none left.

Posted by: Ebola at March 2, 2008 06:58 PM

The Real Jeff;That was pretty good.I'd walk a mile for a camel.Old School,but right on the mark.

Posted by: greg newson at March 3, 2008 02:19 AM

Alas, greg, the Tree Hugging Sister does not share your enthusiasm. I shall have to persevere in my quest for the perfect one liner.....

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at March 3, 2008 09:16 AM

That's nothing. I'm currently writing my own autobiography posthumously.

Posted by: nightfly at March 3, 2008 10:43 AM