Hello and thank you for taking the time to do this important work. I have a question in several parts, first, as a genuine survivor of the the Shoah, what are you feeling or attitudes towards those who fraudulently claim to have experienced the Holocaust, for example Laurel Rose Wilson, a.k.a., Lauren Stratford, a.k.a. Laura Grabowski, an American impostor who collected thousands of dollars in donations intended for Holocaust survivors?
Second, how does it make you feel or how do you react to people like Binjamin Wilkomirski, who published a fabricated memoir about the Holocaust, a book that won him numerous prestigious book prizes and made him a very rich man or Herman Rosenblat who wrote a now completely discredited book Angel at the Fence that was the inspiration for the movie The Apple?
Last and most, and perhaps most importantly, moving forward, how do we as Humanity, deal with these frauds who seek to enrich themselves based on the worst crime of the 20th century and in doing so provide ample fuel to Holocaust deniers and the rising tide of neo-Nazis in America and Europe?
Again, I thank you for your time.
ברוך אתה ה' א‑לוהינו, מלך העולם, שהחינו וקימנו והגענו לזמן הזה.
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Hello and thank you for taking the time to do this important work. I have a question in several parts, first, as a genuine survivor of the the Shoah, what are you feeling or attitudes towards those who fraudulently claim to have experienced the Holocaust, for example Laurel Rose Wilson, a.k.a., Lauren Stratford, a.k.a. Laura Grabowski, an American impostor who collected thousands of dollars in donations intended for Holocaust survivors? Second, how does it make you feel or how do you react to people like Binjamin Wilkomirski, who published a fabricated memoir about the Holocaust, a book that won him numerous prestigious book prizes and made him a very rich man or Herman Rosenblat who wrote a now completely discredited book Angel at the Fence that was the inspiration for the movie The Apple? Last and most, and perhaps most importantly, moving forward, how do we as Humanity, deal with these frauds who seek to enrich themselves based on the worst crime of the 20th century and in doing so provide ample fuel to Holocaust deniers and the rising tide of neo-Nazis in America and Europe? Again, I thank you for your time. ברוך אתה ה' א‑לוהינו, מלך העולם, שהחינו וקימנו והגענו לזמן הזה.
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