VIEW FROM A HOAX: NEW BOOK IS NEXT CHAPTER IN OPRAH HOLOCAUST LOVE STORY HOAX
The Apple Looks at the Story Behind the Holocaust Hoax, Dubbed an Oprah Top 10 Mistake, That Erupted as 2008’s Publishing Scandal
05.08.2009 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—York House Press, Rye Brook, NY. In “The Apple,” Westchester-based author, Penelope Holt, takes a look at the story behind the story of Herman Rosenblat. The Holocaust survivor embellished his heart-rending account of survival with a heart-warming tale of love that set off a firestorm of criticism from the Holocaust community and led to Berkley Books canceling Mr. Rosenblat’s 2009 memoir, “Angel at the Fence.”
A two-time guest on Oprah, who called his tale “The greatest love story we’ve ever told,” Herman Rosenblat claimed that a young girl had helped him survive by tossing him apples over the fence when he was a boy in a Nazi concentration camp. The same girl, he said, was his blind date years later, after they had both comes to America, where they later married.
After the publishing scandal, Rosenblat was vilified for “aiding and abetting Holocaust deniers,” and was ranked alongside Wall Street swindler, Bernie Madoff, as “setting back the Jewish cause.” In “The Apple,” primarily a work of creative non-fiction, Ms. Holt adds a more balanced voice to the chorus, simultaneously recounting Herman’s survival as a child from 1939 to 1945, under a Nazi reign of terror, as well as what happens to Herman as an old man in the weeks after his memoir scandal breaks, culminating in a “gotcha” national news interview.
“The story of the apples took up only a handful of pages in Herman’s original 250-page plus memoir,” says Ms. Holt, “but it was the hook that drew all the media attention, landed him on Oprah, and won would-be readers. Without a doubt, the desire for attention and profit factored into Herman’s motivations, but there are certainly other compelling reasons that influenced him to embellish his account, and these can best be understood by reading his legitimate survivor story.”
‘The Apple’ lets the reader decide. Not justifying how Herman Rosenblat misled the public, the book does serve as s a reminder that this was a complex situation. Much more than one man and his faulty Holocaust tale, this is also a story of how media, commercial enterprise and culture-makers jumped on the opportunity bandwagon, but ultimately left Herman holding the bag.
“The Apple” is now on sale and available at retail bookstores and online sellers and for digital download on iTiunes and Kindle.
Contact York House Press at (914) 764-1080, or email info@yorkhousepress.com Visit www.theapplenovel.com.
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