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One of the most notorious cases involved Belgian-born, U.S.-based writer Misha Defonseca’s 1997 book, “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” an extraordinary story of a child’s survival during the Holocaust that was translated into 18 languages and made into a French feature film.

Earlier this year Defonseca admitted that she had never lived with wolves to escape the Nazis, as the book claims, had not walked 3,000 miles across Europe in search of her parents — and isn’t even Jewish