Misha Defonseca's Forgery Admission

Date: February 29, 2008 • Location: Rome, Italy

Belgian author Misha Defonseca admitted that her bestselling memoir about surviving the Holocaust was in fact a literary forgery.

Misha Defonseca is a Belgian-born impostor and the author of a fraudulent 1997 Holocaust memoir titled Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, initially presented as true.

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