Funny But Misha Doesn't Look Jewish

Misha Defonseca did not live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She did not trek 3,060 kilometers across Europe in search of her deported parents, nor kill a German soldier in self-defense. She is not even Jewish.

Defonseca, a Belgium writer now living in Massachusetts, admitted through her lawyers this week that her best-selling book, Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, was an elaborate fantasy



But, she was 'persecuted':-

Defonseca says her real name is Monique De Wael and that her parents were arrested and killed by Nazis as Belgian resistance fighters.

The statement said her parents were arrested when she was 4 and she was taken care of by her grandfather and uncle. She said she was poorly treated by her adopted family, called a "daughter of a traitor" because of her parents' role in the resistance, which she said led her to "feel Jewish."