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"I wanted to bring happiness to people," said Rosenblat, who now lives in the Miami area. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world."

Try the truth.... You'll get far better results. Nobody is happy about being lied to.
 
Banjo said:
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"I wanted to bring happiness to people," said Rosenblat, who now lives in the Miami area. "I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world."
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And the man was going to make money from it, too.

It demeans the effort of real heroes like Jane Haining
 
A 79 year old man...

Sometimes a make believe embellishment is a useful method to hide from the horrors still alive in the depths of his mind. One can only imagine the visions he has carried all these years and he can still recall.

While I do not condone his action, I can understand it.
 
TR6oldtimer said:
A 79 year old man...

Sometimes a make believe embellishment is a useful method to hide from the horrors still alive in the depths of his mind. One can only imagine the visions he has carried all these years and he can still recall.

While I do not condone his action, I can understand it.
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I agree, Ray...& he probably does remember part of it the way he told in his story....I mean, how else does a child cope with such horror? Make believe! Imagination! Make up something that, for a few moments, takes him away from the real horror he was living with in the camp.

This is one time I'm not going to be too quick to condemn because I've definitely not walked in his shoes.
 
:iagree:

Whatever the reasons for this man's writing of this story, besides the horror of the concentration camps, he also got shot which put him in a wheel chair. The man has had a life filled with horrible things happen to him.

If anyone is to blame for this mess, it has to go to the book editors and the publisher for not checking out the viability of the story. A quick look at the maps of the concentration camps would have shown that this story couldn't have physically happened.

BTW, Wikipedia mentioned in their article on "Angel at the Fence" that all money the author and agent have received are to be returned.

Too bad, the story would have made a great novel. I'm also sure that there would have been a best selling story in there if the author did just stick to events that actually happened. He survived...that alone has to contain some compelling narrative.
 
I hve to agree, Art. Truth is always stranger than fiction.


mebbe they didn't think th' ~truth~ made much of a story.


Jimmy Buffett: "Oh, Th' Stories it Could Tell...

if it all blows up and goes to (b)ell"


:devilgrin:
 
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