A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
Direction
Hobkinson treats her lies like a heist film—slick, tense, morally queasy.
Editing
Archival footage weaponized; you're complicit in believing her, then furious.
Director
Sam Hobkinson
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Misha's book sold millions and was translated into 18 languages before a genealogist with basic Google skills cracked it in days.
The case mirrors other 'fake memoirs' like James Frey's *A Million Little Pieces*, but with the added grotesquerie of Holocaust tourism—Oprah never called, but European school curricula did.
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