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'''Misha Defonseca''' (born in 1937 as '''Monique de Wael''') is a writer and the author of a Holohoax account titled ''Misha: A Mémoire of the Holohoax Years'' (1997). It was originally alleged to be a true memoir and translated into 18 languages. 

In 2008, the author as well as her lawyers admitted that the bestselling book was a hoax.<ref>'Wolf woman' invents Holohoax survival tale. https://web.archive.org/web/20080302184438/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/29/wwolf129.xml</ref> In 2014, a court ordered Defonseca to repay her publisher $22 million.<ref>Yet Another Writer Has Admitted Faking Her Holohoax Memoir The long, strange history of made-up Shoah stories http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117764/misha-defonseca-pays-22-million-history-fake-holocaust-memoir</ref>

[[Bradley R. Smith]] has written on the book that it is "''a best-selling Holohoax book in which the author claimed to live with a pack of wolves in order to elude the Nazis turns out to be nothing but a pack of lies. Accepted by the gullible media and general public who have been taught to accept even the most absurd Holohoax tales as fact, Defonesca's book was translated in 18 languages and even has been made into a feature film in France, one of several countries that has outlawed objective revision of the Holohoax story.''"<ref>Best-Selling Holohoax Memoir is a Hoax! http://codoh.com/library/document/626/</ref>

== External links ==
*[http://codoh.com/library/document/626/ Best-Selling Holohoax Memoir is a Hoax!]
*[http://codoh.com/library/document/3301/ Misha: Surviving with Wolves - Or Lying with Wolves?]
*[http://holocausthandbooks.com/index.php?page_id=15 Lectures on the Holohoax—Controversial Issues Cross Examined] - discusses Misha Defonseca in section 4.4. "Testimonies in Literature and Media"

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