Herman Rosenblat's Holocaust story proven to be hoax. Admits he made it up.

ABC News clip, 2009. Jewish man Herman Rosenblat received international fame, a book deal and a movie deal for his story as a Holocaust survivor. He claimed to be a starving boy in a Nazi concentration who was fed apples and bread by a girl on the other side of the fence. He furthermore claimed that he met the same girl years later in New York on a blind date and married her. Herman and his wife appeared on Oprah twice, Oprah describing their experience as the greatest love story ever told on her show.

Historians proved Herman's claims as false and ridiculous. E.g. Herman claimed he was scheduled to be gassed two hours before he was liberated despite the Theresienstadt concentration camp not having gas chambers. Herman's siblings and children were fully aware of the hoax.

Herman still maintains he didn't lie, reasoning "It was my imagination, and in my mind, I believed it. Even now, I believe it."