A publisher has canceled the release of a so-called Holocaust memoir that benefited from an incredible romance advertised by Oprah Winfrey following an acknowledgment by the writer with regard to the fact that the story was embellished and included made up fragments.

 

Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group, announced that it was hauling “Angel at the Fence, The True Story of a Love that Survived” after the author, Herman Rosenblat, informed his agent Andrea Hurst that he had fabricated part of the book.

 

The 79-year-old writer made two appearances on Oprah’s television show in order to promote his book and tell how he had met his wife at a Nazi concentration camp in Germany while she was throwing apples at him. However, he confessed that he had invented the story so as to take part in a newspaper contest approximately 10 years ago.

 

Berkley Books spokesman Craig Burke explained in a statement that the publishing house would request the author of the book and his agent to compensate for the funds that Berkley offered them for the work.

 

Andrea Hurst issued a statement as well in which she said that the writer had informed her that he had made up the bottom line of the story that presents how the main character and his wife met.

 

In the book, Herman Rosenblat says that years after a girl threw him fruit at the German concentration camp, he moved to New York where he bumped into Polish immigrant Roma Razicki, who proved to be the same girl that had fed him.

 

The book is the most recent in a series of memoirs which the author is believed to have invented.