I normally don’t give much press to books but I HAD to point this one out because it’s being made into a film here in the US (it was made into one in France already)
However, the author of Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years ; a tale of a Jewish girl in Belgium traveling 3000 km across Europe to find her parents and being watched by wolves, has admitted to Canadian news on the CBC, that her tale is utter bullshit. In fact, she even admits that her real name isn’t even Misha Fonseca, it’s Monique De Wael.
This admission comes on the heels of people investigating her and having serious doubts that she’s even Jewish. Here is a quote from the article:
In her book, Defonseca said the Nazis seized her parents when she was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe alone for four years.
She also claimed she was trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, killed a Nazi soldier and was adopted by a group of wolves.
In the statement, she concedes that the story was a fantasy and she never fled her home in Brussels during the war.
She also divulged that her real name was Monique De Wael and her parents were taken and killed by the Nazis because they were Belgian resistance fighters.
The writer says she invented the tale because of the hard life she had growing up as an outsider of sorts.
‘There are times when it is difficult for me to tell the difference between what was reality and what was my interior universe.’—Misha Defonseca
She was often called “daughter of the traitor” because her father was rumoured to have given up information under torture. She was cared for by relatives.
I mean seriously people. Let’s cut the bullshit. Anyone who believed that an 11 year old girl killed a Nazi soldier by herself is an idiot. In addition to that, believing that this same girl would have been able to travel through Nazi Germany undetected, a ridiculously densely populated country, with a pack of wolves is an even bigger idiot. I said as much to my client when I did coverage of the script for this. It is absolute fantasy.
That being said, these people need to stop making up autobiographies. If your story isn’t that interesting don’t say ‘it was real!’ to make it interesting. You will always be found out and you will always end up looking like and asshole.
Here’s a thought, try learning to write and interesting story, dick lick. I know that’s a lot to ask of a fucking author but I swear it is possible.
I know, weird right?
P.S. Canada, you are in North America, stop using the British English. It’s embarrassing.
