"Berkley Books, a unit of Penguin Books, has canceled the planned February publication of 'Angel at the Fence,' a memoir by Herman Rosenblat, a man who said he met his wife while a prisoner at a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
"In Mr. Rosenblat’s story, he said he met his wife Roma Radzicki while he was a teenage prisoner at a sub-camp of the Buchenwald camp in Germany. He wrote in 'Angel at the Fence' that she was living on a nearby farm disguised as a Christian and would sneak him apples at the camp’s fence, and that they reunited in Coney Island more than a decade later.
"Several Holocaust scholars attacked the story in the blogosphere and in a recent article in The New Republic, noting among other things that it would have been impossible for the pair to meet at a fence because of the camp’s layout.
"In a statement Saturday evening, Berkley Books, which had earlier defended the book, said it decided to cancel publication 'after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat’s agent, Andrea Hurst.' Craig Burke, director of publicity at Berkley, declined to elaborate. Berkeley said it was demanding that Mr. Rosenblat and Ms. Hurst return all money received so far.
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