Author who made up Holocaust memoir told to repay $22.5 mn

2014/05/13 00:26:31 @Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

The author of a global best-selling Holocaust memoir who later admitted it was pure fantasy has been ordered by a US court to repay $22.5 million to her publisher. US-based Belgian writer Misha Defonseca & #039;s \ & quot;Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years\ & quot; told the supposedly true tale of a Jewish girl who was cared for by a pack of wolves and killed a Nazi soldier during World War II. But in February 2008 Defonseca, whose real name is Monique de Wael, admitted that most of the events were false, including that she was not Jewish, but Catholic, and that she was never forced to leave her home in Belgium during the war.
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