Fakoir
Sweet old couple with Holocaust memoir outed as fakers:
Again, Oprah is just a sucker for a wildly implausible story about the damn Holocaust. All the way back in 1996, Herman and his lady had a gushy segment on Oprah's show, and their tale was deemed "the greatest love story ever told." Trouble is, the romance at the heart of Rosenblat's story (which was turned into the now-canceled memoir Angel at the Fence)--about a young man in a concentration camp who was thrown an apple a day (to keep Dr. Mengele away) by a young woman across the fence; later they met in Brooklyn and fell in love--turns out to be completely fake, and everyone's sad because why would these nice old people lie? And about something so terrible. Ah well. Oprah hasn't spoken out yet, but when she does... Oh lord help us. She has been jilted one too many times, this book-loving Patron Saint of Sad, Lonely, and/or Awful People.We just love these amazingly miraculous life-affirming redemption stories. You know the ones where the woman waits a hundred years for her lover to come back from the war, or the one where the quadriplegic blind mountain climber is rescued from snowy hypothermic death by his preternaturally intelligent dog. But life--what a pain in the ass--just doesn't actually cough up the goods. No wait, maybe we want to read novels, but we don't like that they're such a patent crock. What we like is books that are secretly fake. Everyone's sad all right.
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