It was a shock to Misha Defonseca’s readers this year when she admitted that the best-selling story of her tortured childhood during the Holocaust was false, but her then-Gloucester publisher saw it as an opportunity to undo a stinging, 7-year-old court judgment.

Jane Daniel says she never would have been ordered to pay Defonseca and her ghost writer $32.4 million over her handling of profits from “Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years” had the jury known the book was filled with lies.

Defonseca never lived with wolves to escape the Nazis, never killed a German soldier in self-defense, never walked 3,000 miles across Europe in search of her parents. Contrary to the book’s claims, Defonseca admitted in February that she isn’t even Jewish.  MORE>>>

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