Oprah Winfrey once dubbed it the "greatest love story" she had ever heard: a boy held at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and a girl on the outside who tossed him apples to keep him alive. They eventually married and grew old together.I want to talk to Oprah. Hang on, she's far away so I must shout...
It turns out the story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat isn't true.
OPRAH, I LOVE YA. BUT PLEASE, FOR AMERICA'S SAKE, BUY A FRIGGIN CLUE! PLEASE STOP PROMOTING GULLIBILITY. GULLIBILITY KILLS.
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How awful that the Rosenblats lied about their story and that the publishers and movie makers fell for it. Boy in the Striped Pajamas, which was a great book and now movie, never pretended to be true. The Rosenblats, like Madoff, are harming the good Jewish name and it's terrible.
ReplyDeleteI read a New York Times article about Stan Lee and Neal Adams the comic book artists supporting another TRUE Holocaust love story. There was a beautiful young artist, Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, who painted Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on the children's barracks at Auschwitz to cheer them up. Dina's art became the reason she and her Mother survived Auschwitz.
Painting the mural for the children caused Dina to be taken in front of Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but bravely she stood up to Mengele and he decided to make her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber as long as she was doing painting for him.
Dina's story is true because some of the paintings she did for Mengele in Auschwitz survived the war and are at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum. Also, the story of her painting the mural of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on the children's barrack has been corroborated by many other Auschwitz prisoners, and of course her love and marriage to the animator of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs the Disney movie after the war in Paris is also a fact.
I wish Oprah would do a story about Dina and her art not about the Rosenblats who were pulling the wool over all our eyes.
Yeah, embellishments of the truth usually serve the cause of those who deny the truth.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Oprah didn't think up a few questions like:
- where did all those apples come from?
- where were the guards?
- seeing that apples could cross the camp wall, why did no one on the outside think to throw something more useful, such as bolt cutters?