falsified Holocaust memoir slugfest

HHN: Penguin cancels formerly-upcoming Holocaust memoir ("Angel at the Fence") that historians revealed to be false. As Ken Waltzer, director of Jewish Studies program at Mich State, writes:

This memoir was at the far end of implausibility, yet until yesterday, no one connected with packaging, promoting, and disseminating it asked questions about or investigated it. Some actively resisted such investigation and tried to shut mine down.

The story gets really interesting when you look into how the producers of a film version complained to Waltzer's dean and attacked Deborah Lipstadt for investigating the claims. (TNR stories here)

Lipstadt also adds some interesting thoughts on HBO's recent John Adams, in which they show Adams railing against Trumbull for painting the signing of the Declaration as a great assembly, which didn't happen. But the scene as shown in the miniseries is itself undocumented!