In my house, we roll out of bed on most Saturdays, and hang out in our jammies, eating breakfast, playing games, watching tv, and reading. Here’s a story that will give you that warm-jammies-and-hot-beverage feeling, with proof that true and abiding kindness and love can flourish in the most hideous of circumstances.
A children’s book has been written based on the story, and a film and autobiography are now in the works. There’s some online (of course) who question the veracity of Herman and Roma Rosenblat’s story, but in my slippers with my family, warm and safe, I’m happy to embrace the idea that it’s true.
However, I’m not going to put my fingers in my ears and go “la la la” if this turns out to be a hoax, either wrote SomaLass above….
SonomaLass, get ready! And get ready to see snopes.com change the label from UNDETERMINED to NOT TRUE, any day now.
The book ANGEL AT THE FENCE has been cancelled before publication, see AP story today. And the kids book ANGEL GIRL, above, well, it might have to be recalled, because the man Herman now admits his story was FAKE, made up, not true. Trust me next time. I knew what I was talking about back then.
HOWEVER, plans for the movie are to go on with it: they will change movie title and name and settings, but it will remain a good solid love story set during Holocaust days with a kind of ITS A BEAUTIFUL LIFE theme. Out in 2012…..so the love story idea lives on…but with a different angle now, different angel…..
See here:
Agent: Rosenblat Told Me that Love Story is Fake
December 27, 2008 | 11:39 PM
Ken Waltzer on Canceled Memoir: “Where Were the Culture Makers?”
December 27, 2008 | 10:58 PM
Publisher Cancels Rosenblat Memoir After TNR Exposes Hoax
December 27, 2008 | 7:18 PM