Posted on 02/18/2009 5:09:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
Oprah Winfrey called it the "greatest love story" she'd ever had on her show.
The love story was so touching, that Hollywood is even making a movie about it.
Herman Rosenblat received international attention for his tale about being a hungry little boy in a Nazi concentration camp who was thrown apples every day by a little girl named Roma, on the other side of the fence.
Years later, according to the story, Rosenblat met that same girl on a blind date in New York City and proposed to her on the spot.
The only problem was, Rosenblat's story, which he and his wife had been telling for 13 years, was a lie.
Six weeks ago Holocaust scholars proved that it was physically impossible for prisoners to approach the fence at the concentration camp where Herman was kept and that Roma's family was actually 200 miles away at the time.
Today, for the first time, Rosenblat spoke out in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America" to share his side of the story.
"It wasn't a lie," he told "GMA." "It was my imagination. And in my imagination, in my mind, I believed it. Even now, I believe it, that she was there and she threw the apple to me. ... In my imagination, it was true."
Rosenblat said he told the story to give people hope and to promote understanding about the Holocaust. His wife went along with the story because, as Rosenblat said, she "loved" him.
But even Rosenblat's son said his real motivation was money.
"It was always hurtful," Rosenblat's son Ken Rosenblat told The New Republic. "My father is a man who I don't know. ... I didn't agree with it. I didn't want anything to do with it."
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Obama has just fulfilled Oprah's Angel Charity network beyond her wildest dreams with the porkulus.
Now people will not have any money to donate. Strange how that trickle up economics works.
Absolutely right. Nowadays, it seems every time you hear a "holocaust survivor" pitch his/her story, it is a fake. And for a good reason: real victims have little reason to have kept silent for 6O years, and their stories are known.
It's because of bastards and liars like this that holocaust denial is so widespread. How can people believe something when so much of its claims are BS? Might as well believe in global warming, right?
One problem is the recent glorification of Nazi victims. People who are otherwise uninteresting want to join this new nobility, just like 18th century commoners yearned to become nobles.
Similar nonsensical story to the recent book/movie: “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.”
“It wasn’t a lie,” “It was my imagination”
Everyone know has a perfect excuse to use for any lie.
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