The Girl With The Apple

Another Holocaust story turns out to be a fraud

By James Edwards

Wow. Yet another Holocaust memoir turns out to completely false. What’s the count up to, now anyway? Gotta be close to 100. 101 if you count Elie Wiesel’s farcical Night. At this point people have got to be wondering if any Holocaust memoirs are true. The track record isn’t very reassuring. You had the woman who made millions claiming that as a 4 year old she fled the Nazis and wound up being raised by wolves. Apparently people will believe anything. Then there was that Wilkomirski freak and his Fragments, which was praised world wide as one of the best and most accurate Holocaust memoirs ever written, by many “experts” on the Holocaust. (Of course, when virtually all the rest are phony, it’s not hard to be the “most accurate.”) Even after he admitted he’d never even been in a concentration camp and had made the whole thing up, many in the idiot PC crowd insisted that it didn’t matter if the book was true or not, because it was still True.

Now comes the latest Holocaust literary fraud, The Girl With The Apple, courtesy of Herman and Roma Rosenblat. Rosenbladt claimed that while he was a young boy in a concentration camp at Buchenwald that a girl on the outside would bring him an apple every day. Bread, too. Years later, after he and millions of others miraculously survived the ruthlessly efficient non-stop Nazi killing machine, he went on a blind date with a woman, and lo and behold, she turned out to be the girl that used to bring him the apples. What a coinkadink, huh? They wound up getting married, and never bothered sharing this truly amazing story with anyone else. Then one night his dead mother appeared to him in a dream and told him he must share their story with the world so his grandkids would know they were Holocaust survivors. Why he couldn’t simply inform his grandkids that he survived the Holocaust the ghost of his mother never explained. (more…)