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December 27, 2008By Michael Cader

Berkely Cancels Holocaust Memoir

December 27, 2008By Michael Cader

Publication of Herman Rosenblat’s forthcoming ANGEL AT THE FENCE: The True Story of a Love That Survived, has been cancelled by Berkley, which initially defend the book, “after receiving new information from Rosenblatts’s agent, Andrea Hurst” according to a short statement. They add that the publisher “will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work.” Earlier in the week Berkley had told the AP that Holocaust expert Michael Berenbaum said the book’s “general outline”  was credible and hedged by asserting that “any memoir based on the memories of a survivor is […]

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