On Friday, November 7, 2008 I made a blog entry entitled A great love story. I shared with everyone the love story where the kid in a concentration camp meets a girl on the other side of the fence and she brings him apples and bread and stuff, sustaining him and bringing him hope. Years later, after the war, they reunite in New York and he asks her to marry him on the spot! It's touching and it makes me cry every time, especially so since it's true!
Sadness, then, that the man who wrote the story, Herman Rosenblat, whom the story happened to, just admitted that it's fake! From snopes.com (a site that won't let me copy and paste their text, dang it!):
In late December 2008, however, Berkley Books withdrew plans to publish Herman Rosenblat's memoir, Angel at the Fence, due to concerns that his tale was a fabricated one. Rosenblat's agent, Andrea Hurst, acknowledged her client had revealed to her that a key portion of his story was false:
It is with heavy heart that I share what I learned from my client, Herman Rosenblat, about his book, Angel at the Fence. Herman revealed to me that part of his memoir was not true. He'd invented the crux of this amazing love story -- about the girl at the fence who threw him an apple -- which drew my attention when I read it in a major magazine two years ago. All of the story about Herman in the concentration camps and the love and survival of him and his brothers, he states is true.
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/thefence.asp
Just thought I'd share the sadness. You're welcome.
1 comment:
Booooo. I liked that story. Although I am glad that I'm not in danger of sharing a false story with anyone in the future. Thanks!
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