A false Holocaust Memoir

    Last week, publishers of a long-awaited Holocaust memoir “The Angel at the Fence” announced that the author had fabricated parts of the story. We talk about how the lies where uncovered, what motivated the author and why this particular case of fraud seems particularly egregious. Our guests are KENNETH WALTZER, professor of Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, and MARC AGRONIN, a geriatric psychiatrist whose patients include Holocaust survivors. Listen to the mp3

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