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Holocaust ‘greatest’ love story a hoax - surprised? 30 December 2008 at 1:35 pm by Per-Otto Lekare

(CNN) — Oprah Winfrey once dubbed it the “greatest love story” she had ever heard: a boy held at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and a girl on the outside who tossed him apples to keep him alive. They eventually married and grew old together.

Herman Rosenblat has acknowledged his Holocaust love story is fake: "I am sorry."

Herman Rosenblat has acknowledged his Holocaust love story is fake: “I am sorry.”

It turns out the story of Herman and Roma Rosenblat isn’t true.

The two had told their love story for years and years, inspiring a book deal, an upcoming movie, and stories across the globe on television, in papers and on the Internet. A children’s book, “Angel Girl,” was also based on their love story.

When the couple appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” more than a decade ago, the famed host called it “the single greatest love story in 22 years of doing this show.”

But over the weekend, Herman Rosenblat issued a statement through his literary agent, Andrea Hurst, acknowledging the story of how he met his wife was made up.

“Why did I do that and write the story with the girl and the apple, because I wanted to bring happiness to people, to remind them not to hate, but to love and tolerate all people. I brought good feelings to a lot of people, and I brought hope to many. My motivation was to make good in this world,” he said in the statement.

“In my dreams, Roma will always throw me an apple, but I now know it is only a dream.”

Herman Rosenblat really was in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II — a subcamp of Buchenwald — and he really has been married to Roma for decades. Beyond that, the truth is murky.

Berkley Books immediately canceled publication of Rosenblat’s memoir, “Angel at the Fence,” which was set to be released in February.

“Berkley will demand that the author and the agent return all money that they have received for this work,” Berkley spokesman Craig Burke said in a statement.

A movie version of the Rosenblats’ story — even though now proven a hoax — remains in the works. Atlantic Overseas Pictures says the movie is a fictionalized adaptation and that “the story retains its power to grip audiences worldwide.”

Many Holocaust scholars had long cast doubt on the Rosenblats’ story.

Professor Ken Waltzer, the director of Michigan State University’s Jewish Studies program, said he began raising questions to the agent and publisher in November, suggesting that the story was fabricated. But he says his numerous queries went unanswered.

He says he told the editor that the story is “at best embellished and perhaps invented.”

“The idea of a prisoner being able autonomously to approach the fence not just once, but every day at the same time, … none of it seemed plausible,” Waltzer says. “That fence was right next to the SS barracks, so to go to the fence, which was also punishable by death, was to risk death.”

In a letter to “The New Republic,” which first began questioning the validity of the Rosenblats’ story, Waltzer said he was also disturbed about why few others had come forward to point out holes in the couple’s account.

“Less understandable is the widespread belief in their story — by the culture makers, including the publisher and movie maker and many thousands of others who have encountered it over a decade,” he said. “Second, such belief suggests a broad illiteracy about the Holocaust and about experience in the camps — despite decades of books, serious memoirs, museums, and movies. This shakes this historian up.”

“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.”

New Republic special correspondent Gabriel Sherman told CNN another disturbing element is that Herman Rosenblat really is a Holocaust survivor who “didn’t need to embellish his love story, because his own story is so powerful.”

Sherman said Rosenblat was shot during a robbery in the 1990s at his workplace. When he was was in the hospital, Rosenblat said he had a vision from his mother to tell his love story. “From that moment on, he started telling his story in public,” Sherman said.

In his statement released over the weekend, Herman Rosenblat said, “To all [who] supported and believed in me and this story, I am sorry for all I have caused to you and everyone else in the world.

Holocaust scholars say they hope the revelation that the love story is fictitious doesn’t distract from the reality of the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany killed 6 million Jews.

“On the far extreme, something like this could give fuel to those who are in the business of denying that the Holocaust ever took place,” said David Marwell, director of The Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Anyone surprised?

+ The pope is really insane - and wears a funny hat By Per-Otto Lekare 23 December 2008 at 10:47 am and have No Comments

popeROME, Italy (CNN) — Pope Benedict XVI reiterated the Roman Catholic Church’s opposition to homosexual behavior — warning that humanity could destroy itself — in his year-end message to Church leaders.

The Church “demands that the order of creation be respected,” he said Monday, defining “the nature of the human being as man and woman,” according to excerpts released by the Vatican.

He did not specifically mention homosexuality in his speech.

The Catholic Church considers homosexual intercourse to be a sin — as it does all sex outside of marriage — but does not consider homosexuality itself to be one.

“Homogenital behavior is objectively immoral, while making the important distinction between this behavior and a homosexual orientation, which is not immoral in itself,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has said.

Part of the Church’s mission is to “protect the human beings against self-destruction,” the Pope said in his annual address to the cardinals, archbishops and others who make up the Roman Curia.

The Church has as much responsibility to preserve what it sees as man and woman’s God-given roles as it does to protect endangered species, he implied.

“The rain forest deserves, yes, our protection,” Benedict said, “But mankind does not deserve it less as a creature.”

The Pope spoke of an “appropriate ecology of man,” the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales said. “This is rooted in central Catholic teaching of the dignity of the person. It is a central message for all Christians. It is central to what it means to be human.”

Eeeehhhh? The catholic church has outlived itself - definitely. When will people wake up?

+ Boxing is dead By Per-Otto Lekare 20 December 2008 at 6:58 pm and have No Comments

Just saw results from a boxing match, stating that Evander Holyfield lost to Nikolaj Vajulev. Something that would have rocked my world some 15 years, ago, since I liked to watch boxing… thing is Holyfield is big, in good condition, but OLD - 46 years old. Vajulev is huge: 213 cm = 7 feet tall, 35 years old. Holyfield 6″3 = 190 cm tall.

Anyway, Holyfield lost after 12 rounds of fighting. 12 rounds? Yes… he actually stood up all of the rounds. He even looked more fit than Vajulev, 11 years younger, entering round 12. Now that is a great joke. Holyfield should be pursuing a career selling kitchen utensils or something like that. Like a recently retired boxer, George Forman (yes, the man who became a pro in 1969, fought Ali in Zaire - the famous ‘Rumble in the Jungle’, back in 1974, and retired from boxing in 1998, at 48 yrs old). He should not be allowed to be near a boxing ring. He has made his millions… let it be. Jeez. That shows, however, how the boxing associations are battling to survive… MMA (mixed martial arts) have consistenly gained popularity over the last 5 years… UFC have clearly a “Don King”-lead, personified by Dana White.With that, the UFC have a huge lead over other associations (that might have just as good fighters, but suffer from lack of coverage).

Boxing is dead - MMA is here to stay.

+ Life goes on… By Per-Otto Lekare 13 December 2008 at 10:29 am and have No Comments

…you can read about the proved (by Swedish Law) illegal harassing of me and my family further down on this page or by clicking on the Cyberharassing button above… won’t post anything more about this matter unless necessary. People like this lonely, sad, awful, despicable and insane person don’t need to be fed to continue their insane rants. Law enforcement is taking action into this matter at the moment and I know they will do their job.

On another note, I just read that, according to the AARP,  86% of all hispanics in the US believe in miracles, angels and “divine cures”… In addition, 56% claim they have witnessed a miracle.

WOW

Is that why Latin America suffers so much? The church has a stronghold on people, indoctrinating them into believing fairy tales, and in those fairy tales condemning the people if they don’t believe in the same fairy tales. Is it strange that more people every day leave the church?

It is time to take a stand against religious dogma and indoctrination. People die everyday as a result of the (catholic, primarily) church.

+ Hate By Per-Otto Lekare 12 November 2008 at 4:14 pm and have No Comments

I am suprised I have found a new emotion in me. I have never before hated anyone. I have been angry, mad, frustrated, despised, desillusioned, sad and disgusted by people. Now I have found hatred. A strange and ugly sensation, but nonetheless a feeling I feel is well deserved. Maybe I shouldn’t feel that surprised. This feeling has been growing for the last couple of months, but I think today is the day I finally can say that “I HATE”. Hate in the deepest sense of the word.

verb

    To regard with extreme dislike and hostility: abhor, abominate, despise, detest, execrate, loathe.

noun

  1. Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, detestation, hatred, horror, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion.
  2. An object of extreme dislike: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, aversion, bête noire, bugbear, detestation, execration. Informal horror.

+ Cyberstalking and cyberharassing - Per-Otto Lekare By Per-Otto Lekare 03 November 2008 at 3:05 pm and have No Comments

This site is here to portray the truth regarding illegal, false and otrageously libellous allegations made about me, Per Otto Lekare / Peo Lekare (Per-Otto Lekare, Per-Otto Lekare) and my wife Fabiola Kun / Fabiola Kun de Lekare. Someone has registered domain names with our names to publish false, defamatory and illegal accusations on these. This person has also portrayed me (obviously illegally) and created user accounts on one or more social networking sites (e.g. Plaxo.com, etc.) with defamatory and false information as well as published photos of me. In addition, there have been numerous attempts by this person to inflict harm on Fabiola Kun by contacting business colleagues of hers to cause her distress through direct harassment and slander without any proof whatsoever (obviously, since there isn’t any proof). There is, however, an abundance of proof of this insane woman’s attempts at hurting my family.

Phone harassment (during the first 15 days of September, close to 100 phone calls from this person were registered and logged) and threats (during the last 20 months) to me and my family have been delivered as well as “snail mail” letters to most all of my business partners, friends and family. The person in question sent a flower arrangement to an event hosted by Fabiola Kun (president of BPW Mexico) for 600+ delegates from all over the world. This organization works for the benefit of women and especially poor women in third-world countries.

This utterly evil woman sent a number of sealed envelopes (around 40) of which the 3 first contained information about a bogus and non-existing women’s organization wanting to help poor and physically abused women in Central America (how LOW is that?) with some bogus Canada web address, and the rest of the envelopes contained a letter with a picture of Fabiola Kun with the title: “Warning. Beware.” portraying her to be a criminal. No proof (since there is no), only words.

“Whether Fabiola Kun was an equal partner, accomplice or completely duped, there is no question about her suitabilit as a continued representative for BPW” - is what this crazy inhumane being says.

She claims she only “raised the question” of Fabiola’s involvement. Sending a letter with warnings, portraying her to be criminal and urging BPW members to bar her from the association for her “criminal ties” is far from “raising a question”. What goes around, comes around…

Hurting innocent people

That is illegal in any country, actually (it has been reported, obviously). A user on Facebook - “Justice Scales”  - sent messages to BPW members with the same information, after this woman’s official Facebook account had been terminated due to breach of Facebook’s terms of service for spreading defamation, slander and libellous information. One can only suppose that “Justice Scales” is in fact this deranged being - and quite easy to prove by just asking Facebook to provide the connecting IPs of this user. That is something the prosecutor will look at, though. Justice Scales as a Facebook user has been banned (2 for 2, huh?) for breaching the Terms of Service of Facebook.

It is quite a paradox that she presumably called herself “Justice Scales” since the scales of justice might be knocking on her door as you read this. This attempt was not aimed at me, but entirely at Fabiola Kun, of whom this woman has NO proof or evidence of ANY wrongdoing, the only “proof” she has is that Fabiola never answered any email or phone message sent by this psycho. Fabiola is an honest, good mother. Would destroying her career and making her lose face in a huge, international, public event where she is the central figure for hundreds of women that fight against women abuse and poverty accomplish anything else than proof of this evil woman’s twisted mind? Spineless, cowardly, low and - quite frankly - insane. The letters weren’t even signed by this cowardly being. Could say “human being”, but she isn’t… Her Napoleonic way of thinking that everyone is guilty until they themselves prove otherwise is crystal clear proof of her sociopathic behavior.

My children’s school was contacted (with a package with copies of diverse documents) and the parents of the school were contacted and warned not to have anything to do with me, with a link to her website. All in this person’s sociopathic state of mind that it is “her duty” to warn people. Like Batman or some other kind of superhero. She is completely ridiculous and obviously feels no “duty”, she tries to justify evilness with some twisted sense of “good deed” by “warning” people. She is only interested in destroying  my life in any way possible, and at any cost. The lives of Fabiola and my young children are apparently “collateral damage” and not interesting in the equation as she obviously doesn’t care of who gets hurt, as long as I get hurt. What goes around, comes around… Again.

This person justifies her actions with “I have all rights on my side.”… But it isn’t up to her to decide. That is up to Swedish and Mexican law enforcement, The Swedish Data Inspection Board, and ultimately, the criminal court to decide. As of now, if she tries to enter Mexican territory, she will be taken into custody by police.

What I can say is that hurting Fabiola and especially my two unknowing children of 5 and 7 in the way she has done is NOT in any way forgivable or forgettable, whatever she says to exculpate herself. She is solely and utterly responsible for their pain and suffering. I never said a bad word about this clearly evil person to her intelligent but emotionally neglected son. Not one. I never did anything to undermine her standing with her son, or to make her look bad in his eyes (she does more than enough of that by herself). He’s a smart, wonderful kid and I know he keeps his eyes open and understands more than most adults would like to think. What goes around, comes around… Yet again.

She is willing to hurt people around me in a way to get to me, although she believes she isn’t hurting anyone and that she has every right to do that. That’s the typical trademark of a sociopath. That’s also her reason for sending messages and packages to my 72 year old mom, for example. What did she expect that would cause? It hurt my mother terribly. But it didn’t make my mom love me any less, only increase her utter disgust for this woman for the unnecessary and unexplicable pain she caused my mother. Why should she suffer for what someone says her son allegedly did? Should she suffer for giving birth to me? The same goes for the packages she sent distant cousins, friends or business partners of mine - the intention to make them feel discomfort and bad about me.

In all cases, she has just generated even more disgust for her because of the pain she has caused them. “Hurting innocent people is OK, as long as it trickles down to Peo in some way”, seems to be her motto. Innocent I say, because not one of the people she has written about, contacted or spoken of have ever hurt her or done her anything wrong. She just treats everybody as “collateral damage” and then tries to pin the blame on me. But people in general are smarter than that - seen for instance in her blog where people that earlier supported her think she has gone too far and think she is acting out of line and quite insane.

The crimes above mentioned have been denounced to Swedish Law Enforcement and the Swedish Data Inspection Board as well as Mexican Law Enforcement. All of the emails received, chat logs, phone calls received and made (some made by me under threat) and letters received - even hand written ones, have been safeguarded, recorded and kept and sent to law enforcement as evidence. Swedish Police officers I’ve spoken to - as well as most other people - are convinced this person has mental issues, and I’m not the one to argue…

She says “He did his best to take my sanity, but only managed to get my time and money - my sanity he took periodically.” I actually didn’t see many signs of sanity when I was with her (I did, however, see quite the opposite)… I never took any money from her, and time… well… that I don’t know. She also says “I feel sorry for the children, I truly do- growing up in a home with one (or more) evil parent (s) will cause damage (personal experience).” Well… She clearly shows the damage made by her equally insane and evil (according to her own words) parents by her actions.

She ends her letter to BPW with “Preventing a possibly illegal or immoral act is always something to be striven after.”

It is something I actually agree on. That is why police has been contacted. Immoral? Illegal? I say “Hell yes!!!” to both… this evil, crazy, mean, deranged, alcoholic and sick woman has committed several crimes - crimes that could make her end up in Swedish jail for as long as 6 years according to Swedish law and prosecutors. She has indulged in quite a few “immoral acts” along the way, as well. Which are only making her case worse…

The person in question supposes that there has been no legal action taken against her, but - contrary to her belief of “public documents”, police reports aren’t public in Sweden. It is actually illegal to do searches based on names in police databases - or to do searches just to see what people say. That is why - for instance - not even my brother, being a police officer, can look at the police report filed against her. He has, however talked with the investigating officer in charge, but merely as witness just as other people involved in this. As for police report filed in Mexico, it has been filed for threats and harassment. A report to the Swedish Data Inspection board was filed on Sept 18 as well.

So… what happened or what didn’t happen? Police have all the facts and evidence thereof. In order not to disrupt the investigation, I have decided not to publish any information.

“Not coherent or mature”, would be a good description of this ill-mannered woman, actually. Funny that she says so.

Per-Otto Lekare

+ Please check www.lekare.info By Per-Otto Lekare 20 October 2008 at 5:33 pm and have No Comments

Swedish: www.lekare.se
English: www.lekare.info
Spanish: www.lekare.com.mx

Somebody has started a defamation campaign against me (Per-Otto Lekare or Peo Lekare) and against my wife, Fabiola Kun de Lekare or Fabiola Kun. This has been reported to Swedish Police as well as Mexican Police. There is no truth or substance in any of the allegations. For the truth, you are welcome to send me an email at peo@lekare.com.

+ What does the union do when they complain of no money? Give away 59 Hummers!!!! By Per-Otto Lekare 13 October 2008 at 12:04 pm and have No Comments

This country is getting even more crazy. Especially the teachers, supposed to teach our kids. One day they are demonstrating , closing highways and making other people’s life miserable. The other day, the teacher’s union buys 59 Humvees (!) to give away to leaders.

A humvee costs between 35 000 and 75 000 USD here in Mexico. Given that a teacher makes far less per year, it’s quite surprising that the union would choose to give away these luxury vehicles to teachers.

No, wait a minute. They were not given to teachers. They were given to union leaders!!!! Go figure.

Worker’s unions should be prohibited in this country. They are known to be corrupt. All of them. It makes me so mad!!!!! I hate unions.

+ Graham hospitalized after fall - divine justice? By Per-Otto Lekare 11 October 2008 at 3:01 pm and have No Comments

Evangelist Billy Graham was hospitalized Saturday after tripping and falling over one of his dogs the night before at his home in western North Carolina, a hospital statement said.

Evangelist Billy Graham, pictured in 2005, has suffered a number of physical ailments.

Graham, 89, had discomfort and bruising from the accident Friday night. He was listed in fair condition at Mission Hospital, the facility said in a statement.

“His physicians report that X-rays showed no broken bones,” the statement said.

Doctors evaluated Graham’s condition late Friday, and the Southern Baptist minister chose to stay overnight because of the late hour, the hospital said. “According to his nurses, Mr. Graham had an uneventful night and was able to sleep.”

Graham hopes to return to his home in Montreat later Saturday, the hospital said.

In February, Graham had elective surgery to replace a shunt that maintains normal pressure in his head, the hospital said. The shunt was installed in 2000 to combat symptoms of hydrocephalus, a condition that causes a buildup of fluid on the brain, according to Graham’s Web site.

Graham also has faced prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease. He underwent hip replacement surgery after fracturing his pelvis in a fall in 2004.

The founder of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association has preached to millions over six decades, and has provided counsel to generations of U.S. presidents, beginning with Harry S. Truman.

He will celebrate his 90th birthday November 7.

Graham fell

+ Palin abused power in firing, panel finds By Per-Otto Lekare 10 October 2008 at 11:24 pm and have No Comments

U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin abused her power as Alaska’s governor in a case involving the firing of her former public safety commissioner, a report ffrom that state concludes.

Is anybody surprised? She seems to be one of those rabid women that blame their rages and stupid behavior on PMS - or even worse, PMDD. They are flamin’ crazy to begin with, but need some kind of “clinical” excuse for their crazyness. “I can’t help it”, etc. However… She should have known and should have bowed down… but she didn’t. So now, the man with the short, broken arms will wave - as good as he can - goodbye to the presidency.

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