Misha Defonseca is a Belgian-born impersonator and the author of the fake Holocaust book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, originally published in 1997 and claimed to be a true memoir at the time. It was an immediate hit in Europe and translated into 18 languages. Know more about Misha Defonseca Net worth, Age, Bio, Husband, Career, Nationality, Ethnicity

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Misha Defonseca Age & Early Life

Misha Defonseca was born on 12 May 1937, in Etterbeek, Belgium.  She is 86 years old as of 2023. She is a Belgium citizen and of mixed ethnicity. Defonseca was the daughter of Catholic parents who were imprisoned, deported, and killed by the Nazis for their participation in the resistance. Monique was taken to live with her grandparents when her parents were arrested and subsequently with her uncle. Her father was suspected of leaking information to the Nazis while imprisoned. Thus she was dubbed the “daughter of the traitor” in the local community. Her father’s name was removed from a stone monument commemorating local Nazi victim workers on the Schaerbeek municipality’s walls after she was freed.

Misha Defonseca Height & Weight

Misha Defonseca is 5 feet 7 inches tall. She weighs approximately 65 kg. She has warm brown eyes and blonde locks. There is no further information regarding her body measurement.

Misha Defonseca Net Worth 2023

According to Wikipedia, Forbes, IMDb, and other online sources, 86-year-old novelist Misha Defonseca have a net worth of $1.5 million as of November 2023. She made money as a professional novelist.

Career

Misha Defonseca wrote Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, a fictional Holocaust memoir first published in 1997. It was translated into 18 languages and a smash in Europe. The 1997 French edition of the novel, Survivre Avec Les Loups (Surviving with Wolves), was adapted into the film of the same name.

Despite the book’s popularity, critics noted logical and historical errors. Henryk M. Broder questioned Defonseca’s story in 1996 for Der Spiegel. Jane Daniel posted a christening certificate from a Brussels church for a Monique De Wael and registration from an elementary school near the De Waels’ house in late February 2008. Le Soir, Belgium’s national newspaper, announced the results. Belgia’s foremost Holocaust historian, Dr. Maxime Steinberg, pointed out the story’s historical flaws.

Defonseca admitted to Le Soir on February 29, 2008, that she fabricated the story after being presented with “irrefutable” evidence. The author said, “The book is a tale, my story.” “My reality isn’t real. Sometimes I can’t differentiate truth from my imagination.” Defonseca told Le Soir she wanted to forget her identity because she was called “the traitor’s daughter.”

On February 29, 2008, the author and her attorneys confessed that the bestselling book was fiction. In 2014, Defonseca was ordered to repay $22 million to her publisher.

Misha Defonseca Husband & Marriage

Who is Misha Defonseca Husband? Misha is married to Maurice Defonseca, whom she met while working at the same firm in Brussels. Maurice has spent his whole career working for the computer company Honeywell Bull. The couple subsequently resided in Paris and returned to the United States in December 1985. Maurice relocated after landing a job with a business in Boston, Massachusetts.

Defonseca’s second spouse is Maurice. Misha had previously been married to a Belgian called Morris Levy. Misha and Morris have one kid together. Defonseca and her husband maintained a low profile after her admission about the book, but according to a 2014 MassLive story, we know they were living in Dudley, Massachusetts, at the time. According to Newsweek, the documentary concludes with her and her husband still living together in Massachusetts.

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