Herman Rosenblat, a Miami retiree, has for the last decade spread the amazing tale of how he met his wife. He even appeared on Oprah twice, and Ms. Winfrey dubbed it the greatest love story ever told.
Rosenblat was a prisoner in the Nazi's infamous Buchenwald concentration camp. A young girl, a Jew pretending to be a Christian for her own safety, lived on a neighboring farm and would toss an apple over the fence everyday to help him survive.
Rosenblat does survive and immigrates to America, w
Herman Rosenblat, the Miami Beach retiree and Holocaust survivor did indeed make up the amazing story that while being held in a concentration camp a young girl would throw apples to him over the fence which helped him survive, only to move to America years later and miraculously be set up on a blind date with her, and eventually marry her. His wife did throw those apples. They just weren't to him.Rosenblat was all set to publish his memoir, and have the story turned into a movie, but The New
Herman Rosenblat, a Miami Beach Holocaust survivor, has already made quite a mess of things. First there was the whole made-up tale of triumph in the face of tragedy. Rosenblat sold the world and every authority that matters (ahem, Oprah) on a story that, in hindsight, just seems pretty ridiculous: that a young girl, pretending to be a Christian to avoid the concentration camps, threw him apples over the fence of his camp every day for 7 months, and years later became his wife after they randoml
