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Holocaust Hoax: An Author Admits She Lied

An author who claimed that after the Nazis took her parents away she at age 7 wandered across Europe, crossed rivers, was befriended by wolves [wolves?? yup wolves], and managed to survive has apparently admitted she made the whole thing up.

The European press is full of stories about this as are various American blogs.

Turns out she is not even Jewish. Wilkomirskiredux. People like this are beneath contempt.

This woman must really be a true lowlife since she sued her American publisher for not having done enough to make her book a bestseller. She won a $33 million settlement. When have publishers ever done enough???

Here's her publisher's side of the story.
Read entire article at Deborah Lipstadt at her blog