Globe Staff / February 29, 2008
Eleven years after the publication of her best-selling Holocaust
memoir - a heartwarming tale of a small Jewish girl trekking across
Europe and living with wolves - the Massachusetts author yesterday
admitted the whole story was a hoax.
In a statement issued by her Belgian lawyer, Misha Defonseca of
Dudley, whose book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," has
been translated into 18 languages and is the basis for a new French
movie, "Survivre avec les Loups" ("Surviving With the Wolves"),
confessed that she spent the war safely in Brussels.