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Publication of disputed Holocaust memoir cancelled

AP, New York
The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has cancelled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story -- embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others - of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp.
' I wanted to bring happiness to people," Rosenblat said in a statement issued through his agent. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world."
Rosenblat’s ' 'Angel at the Fence'' had been scheduled to come out in February, but Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), withdrew the memoir following allegations by scholars, friends and family members that his tale was untrue.
"Berkley Books is cancelling publication of 'Angel at the Fence' after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat' s agent,'' the publisher said in a statement.
"Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work.''
A couple of days earlier, Berkley had offered a qualified defence of the book, saying it was a work of memory, a story whose truth was known only to the author.
"This was not Holocaust education but miseducation," Ken Waltzer. director of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, said in a statement.
"Holocaust experience is not heart-warming; it is heart rending. All this shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust. All the more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience in the camps."
Rosenblat, 79, a resident of the Miami area, was virtually unknown to the general public until the 1990s when he began speaking of how he came to know his wife. Roma Radzicky. /Xccording to Rosenblat and his wife, he was a prisoner at a sub-camp of Buchenwald in Nazi Germany and she a young Jewish girl whose family was pretending to be Christian and lived nearby.
For months, they would meet on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence, where she would sneak him apples and bread. Rosenblat was then transferred to another camp and the two lost touch, until the 1950s, when they were reunited by accident -- on a blind date -- in New York. They soon married and earlier this year celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
The Rosenblats were interviewed twice over the years by Winfrey, who has called their romance "the single greatest love story... we've ever told on the air.'' They have inspired a children's book and a feature film adaptation is scheduled to begin next year.
Scholars long doubted the love story, citing, as one example, that the layout of the sub-camp made such an encounter at the fence virtually unthinkable (They would have met right by an SS banacks).