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| Author | Herman Rosenblat |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Holocaust memoir, love story |
| Publisher | Berkley Books |
Publication date | Cancelled (originally February 3, 2009)[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 304 pp (first edition)[1] |
| ISBN | 978-0-425-22581-3 |
Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and marriage to, a girl who had passed him food through the barbed-wire fence when he was imprisoned at the Schlieben subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II. The book was scheduled for publication by Berkley Books in February 2009, but its publication was canceled on December 27, 2008, when it was discovered that the book's central events were untrue.[2]
Prior to being exposed as a fabrication, the film rights to the book were purchased for $25 million by producer Harris Salomon of Atlantic Overseas Pictures. Other fans of the story included Oprah Winfrey, who described it as the single greatest love story she had heard in 22 years of doing her show.
- ^ a b Angel at the Fence from the U.S. Penguin Group website
- ^ "Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story". Publication of disputed Holocaust memoir canceled. Associated Press. December 27, 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2015.