Misha defonseca biography

Misha Defonseca became famous the first time as the author of &#;s Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, and famous the second time when it was revealed in that she&#;d made the whole thing up.

The book came about thanks to publisher Jane Daniel of Mt.

Ivy Press in Massachusetts, where Misha began telling her story in the s. Daniel hired Vera Lee as a ghostwriter, and Lee worked with Misha to craft the memoir. Misha&#;s tale was that she had escaped the Nazis who killed her parents, then wandered throughout Europe during World War II as a 7 and 8 year-old.

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Along the way, she was sheltered by a pack of wolves and, in self-defense, killed a Nazi soldier.

Although it didn&#;t sell that well in the United States (5, copies, they say), it did better in Italy and France. The Disney company bought the film rights, and Defonseca taped an interview with Oprah Winfrey (never aired).

It was a rocky ride through the courts after that.

First, a breach of contra