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Ytterligare en i raden av hundratusentals, kanske miljonen, "överlevare" som erkänner att han och hans fru har ljugit, men Herman Rosenblat känner ingen direkt ånger och menar att han ljög i "gott syfte" och att det inte var en lögn utan bara hans fantasier, något hans son skäms över och menar att intresset för pengar var det primära:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=12098233
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/US/story?id=6903068&page=1
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"It was always hurtful," Rosenblat's son Ken Rosenblat told The New Republic. "My father is a man who I don't know. ... I didn't agree with it. I didn't want anything to do with it."
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Now, as he stands to make a fortune peddling his story, Rosenblat is unrepentant, and would do it again.
Rosenblat told "GMA" it was the right thing to do and never thought he was not telling the truth.
"Even now, I believe it," he said.---"
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=6537144
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"I question why I never questioned it. I believed it; it was an incredible, hope-filled story."
On Saturday, Berkley Books canceled Rosenblat's memoir, "Angel at the Fence," after he acknowledged that he and his wife did not meet, as they had said for years, at a sub-camp of Buchenwald, where she allegedly sneaked him apples and bread. The book was supposed to come out in February.
Rosenblat, 79, has been married to the former Roma Radzicky for 50 years, since meeting her on a blind date in New York. In a statement issued Saturday through his agent, he described himself as an advocate of love and tolerance who falsified his past to better spread his message.
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Rosenblat's believers included not only his agent and his publisher, but Oprah Winfrey, film producers, journalists, family members, school children and strangers online who ignored, or didn't know about, the warnings from scholars and skeptics that his story didn't make sense.
Other Holocaust memoirists have devised greater fantasies. Misha Defonseca, author of "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," pretended she was a Jewish girl who lived with wolves during the war, when she was actually a non-Jew who lived, without wolves, in Belgium.
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The damage is broad. Publishing, the most trusting of industries, has again been burned by a memoir that fact-checking might have prevented.
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Berenbaum now says he saw factual errors, including Rosenblat's description of Theresienstadt, the camp from which he was eventually liberated, but didn't think of challenging the love story.---"
Hur många andra vittnen kan man egentligen lita på? Den intresserade ögnar förstås igenom denna tråd som på ett överskådligt sätt påvisar många av de fabler och absurditeter förintelseöverlevare berättar om, jag lovar att det är spännande läsning.
Intressant att Herman Rosenblat lurat mössan av Berenbaum, former director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
Vill minnas att detta museum har en "autentisk" gaskammardörr med kik-e-öga och allt men jag ska inte sparka in öppna dörrar i tråden.
Rosenblats söner säger att han ljög för pengarnas skull och Herman himself påstår att han trodde på och levde i sina egna lögner. Påminner om ett fyllo som sover i sina egna spyor. Kommer osökt att tänka på vår "svenska" expert överlevare Cordelia "dödsängeln" Edvardson, hon mår nog inte så bra idag.
Önskar att jag gick i skolan och fick träffa dessa överlevare, skulle nog ha en och annan fråga...
är ju intressant. Faktum är att USHMM presenterar en skyddsrumsdörr för att vara en gaskammardörr från Majdanek, undrar hur många "överlevare" som vittnat om den?