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Herman and Roma Rosenblat

The story of a World War Two romance that began in a Nazi concentration camp, which Oprah Winfrey proclaimed to be “the greatest love story we’ve ever told on the air”, turns out to be a complete fabrication.

Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat has for years been telling who ever would listen that he met his wife while in a German prison camp. The story goes that a young girl would bring him fruit and other food, passing it trough a fence, which helped him get through his ordeal. Years later, he met the girl again, after being set up on a blind date, and after recognizing one another, have live happily ever after.

Rosenblat has even penned a memoir entitled ‘Angel At The Gate’, which a Hollywood studio has already optioned for a movie, and the couple has appeared on “Oprah” twice.

But, though Rosenblat was actually detained in a Nazi camp, and he did meet Roma on a blind date in New York, she was not the girl passing food through the fence. As a matter of fact, there was not girl at the fence, and Rosenblat has admitted that his story was made up.

Rosenblot’s publisher is cancelling distribution of his book and is asking to have advance money returned. Hollywood, always in the market for a good love story, still plans to go ahead with plans for the movie.

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