Comments on: Oprah duped by another fake memoir http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/ Stylish celebrity escapism Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Pamela http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-176512 Pamela Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:02:59 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-176512 The Rosenblat story is so sad. Why is Atlantic Pictures making a film based on a lie? Why didn't Oprah check the story out before publicizing it, especially after James Frey and given that many bloggers like Deborah Lipstadt said in 2007 that the Rosenblat's story couldn't be true. Genuine love stories from the Holocaust do exist. My favorite is the one about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt - the beautiful young art student who painted Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on the children's barracks at Auschwitz to cheer them up. This painting became the reason Dina and her Mother survived Auschwitz. After the end of the war, Dina applied for an art job in Paris. Unbeknownst to Dina, her interviewer was the lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They fell in love and got married. It's such a romantic love story. Another reason I love Dina's story is the tremendous courage she had to paint the mural in the first place. Painting the mural for the children caused her to be taken to Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but bravely she stood up to Mengele and he made her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber. Dina's story is also verified to be true. Some of the paintings she did for Mengele in Auschwitz survived the war and are at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum. 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 documented. Why wasn't the Rosenblatt's story checked out before it was published and picked up to have the movie made?? I would like to see true and wonderful stories like Dina's be publicized, not these hoax tales that destroy credibility and trust. The Rosenblat story is so sad. Why is Atlantic Pictures making a film based on a lie? Why didn’t Oprah check the story out before publicizing it, especially after James Frey and given that many bloggers like Deborah Lipstadt said in 2007 that the Rosenblat’s story couldn’t be true.
Genuine love stories from the Holocaust do exist. My favorite is the one about Dina Gottliebova Babbitt – the beautiful young art student who painted Snow White and the Seven Dwarves on the children’s barracks at Auschwitz to cheer them up. This painting became the reason Dina and her Mother survived Auschwitz. After the end of the war, Dina applied for an art job in Paris. Unbeknownst to Dina, her interviewer was the lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They fell in love and got married. It’s such a romantic love story. Another reason I love Dina’s story is the tremendous courage she had to paint the mural in the first place. Painting the mural for the children caused her to be taken to Dr. Mengele, the Angel of Death. She thought she was going to be gassed, but bravely she stood up to Mengele and he made her his portrait painter, saving herself and her mother from the gas chamber.

Dina’s story is also verified to be true. Some of the paintings she did for Mengele in Auschwitz survived the war and are at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum. 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 documented.

Why wasn’t the Rosenblatt’s story checked out before it was published and picked up to have the movie made?? I would like to see true and wonderful stories like Dina’s be publicized, not these hoax tales that destroy credibility and trust.

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]]> By: A.J. http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175491 A.J. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:18:18 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175491 Not surprising. Oprah lost all credibility in my mind when she got trolled on national television by Anonymous. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Not surprising. Oprah lost all credibility in my mind when she got trolled on national television by Anonymous. She’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.

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]]> By: The Old KC http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175436 The Old KC Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:35:28 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175436 Sorry to lighten the subject, but I thought it was funny how the NYTimes article said the "core" of the story was fabricated...and the wife's name is "Roma"...yuk yuk! Romas are my favorite apples, along with Fujis. Seems like he could have been using his wife's name as an allusion to something else she was maybe tossing him and it just led him to think of the apple story. Sorry. I just thought it was kind of amusing. Sorry to lighten the subject, but I thought it was funny how the NYTimes article said the “core” of the story was fabricated…and the wife’s name is “Roma”…yuk yuk! Romas are my favorite apples, along with Fujis. Seems like he could have been using his wife’s name as an allusion to something else she was maybe tossing him and it just led him to think of the apple story. Sorry. I just thought it was kind of amusing.

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]]> By: kate http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175433 kate Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:26:58 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175433 how embarassing for the couple;s family. as for oprah, she is such a narcissist she gets fooled all the time. and why do people need to make surviving the holocaust "more interesting"? isn't that interesting enough? that's why i despise steven speilberg for cheapening schindlers list by putting in a shitload of dramatic crap that didn't happen and still calling it true to life. the real, unembellished story of schindler is amazing on its own. how embarassing for the couple;s family. as for oprah, she is such a narcissist she gets fooled all the time. and why do people need to make surviving the holocaust “more interesting”? isn’t that interesting enough? that’s why i despise steven speilberg for cheapening schindlers list by putting in a shitload of dramatic crap that didn’t happen and still calling it true to life. the real, unembellished story of schindler is amazing on its own.

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]]> By: Gerry http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175413 Gerry Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:40:46 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175413 Oprah should be able to stand behind each and every book recommendation she makes, be it a Holocaust story or a diet method. She has enough resources for a thorough research staff. Not nearly enough books have been written from the first hand experiences of those who survived the Holocaust. Theirs is a story that is certainly in no need of embellishment. This book should have been presented as a book of fiction. Otherwise, it's an injustice to those whose stories we'll never hear. Oprah should be able to stand behind each and every book recommendation she makes, be it a Holocaust story or a diet method. She has enough resources for a thorough research staff.

Not nearly enough books have been written from the first hand experiences of those who survived the Holocaust. Theirs is a story that is certainly in no need of embellishment.

This book should have been presented as a book of fiction. Otherwise, it’s an injustice to those whose stories we’ll never hear.

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]]> By: courtney http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175411 courtney Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:35:46 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175411 as a creative nonfiction major the issue with him fabricating the story and selling it as truth is because it cheapens the work of other nonfiction authors. there are acceptable lies if you want to call it that are allowed in creative nonfiction writing such as condensing time or characters and dialogue is always understood to be not exactly what was said. but these people who are lying and completely making up stories is why the creative nonfiction genre is looked at with a grain of salt. not to mention the huge emotional impact a story like this has, i remember seeing them on oprah and sobbing my eyes out. they are cheapening the holocaust and writers everywhere. sure everyone tells tall tales but this isn't in their kitchen across the dinner table, this is on national television and world press. as a creative nonfiction major the issue with him fabricating the story and selling it as truth is because it
cheapens the work of other nonfiction authors. there are acceptable lies if you want to call it that are allowed in creative nonfiction writing such as condensing time or characters and dialogue is always understood to be not exactly what was said. but these people who are lying and completely making up stories is why the creative nonfiction genre is looked at with a grain of salt.
not to mention the huge emotional impact a story like this has, i remember seeing them on oprah and sobbing my eyes out. they are cheapening the holocaust and writers everywhere. sure everyone tells tall tales but this isn’t in their kitchen across the dinner table, this is on national television and world press.

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]]> By: gg http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175325 gg Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:13:15 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175325 Okrah's staff should have known the story was impossible to begin with. I did and I didn't even do research. It's just not believable. Okrah’s staff should have known the story was impossible to begin with. I did and I didn’t even do research. It’s just not believable.

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]]> By: Kayleigh http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175303 Kayleigh Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:53:25 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175303 I saw these two on a local news channel a year or two ago and they told their story, and made no hint what so ever that they were both lying aobut it. People are always interested in reading Holocaust survival stories, he didn't have to lie to all of America to get more money out of it. As much as I hate to admit it, this is in no way Oprah or her teams fault. This man could have easly said "Based on True Events" but he failed to mention the part where his current wife's role was the not-so true event in the story. I saw these two on a local news channel a year or two ago and they told their story, and made no hint what so ever that they were both lying aobut it. People are always interested in reading Holocaust survival stories, he didn’t have to lie to all of America to get more money out of it.

As much as I hate to admit it, this is in no way Oprah or her teams fault.

This man could have easly said “Based on True Events” but he failed to mention the part where his current wife’s role was the not-so true event in the story.

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]]> By: MomInNH http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175257 MomInNH Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:14:52 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175257 This couple are just liars. Telling stories to people and saying those stories are your own and really truly happened to you is just wrong no matter how you slice it. I'm glad they were caught in their lies and hope that nobody buys their ridiculous book filled with bs that never happened. Now had he written a novel about a fictional character it would be completely different. But that he would continue to try to perpetuate lies bothers me a great deal. No matter how many times you tell a lie it doesn't become the truth. This couple are just liars. Telling stories to people and saying those stories are your own and really truly happened to you is just wrong no matter how you slice it.

I’m glad they were caught in their lies and hope that nobody buys their ridiculous book filled with bs that never happened.

Now had he written a novel about a fictional character it would be completely different. But that he would continue to try to perpetuate lies bothers me a great deal. No matter how many times you tell a lie it doesn’t become the truth.

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]]> By: hmm http://www.celebitchy.com/28492/oprah_duped_by_another_fake_memoir/#comment-175253 hmm Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:40:23 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28492#comment-175253 Aspen, I didn't put that sentence in lightly. I read that survivors of the Holocaust were worried that this controversy gives ammunition to the deniers. It doesn't matter whether denying is rational or not but there is a reason that the organizations have worked over the past few decades to memorialize the Holocaust. They're not worried about the people who are living today and know the history, they're worried about what happens when there are no more survivors left. Aspen, I didn’t put that sentence in lightly. I read that survivors of the Holocaust were worried that this controversy gives ammunition to the deniers. It doesn’t matter whether denying is rational or not but there is a reason that the organizations have worked over the past few decades to memorialize the Holocaust. They’re not worried about the people who are living today and know the history, they’re worried about what happens when there are no more survivors left.

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