Author of Holocaust book admits it is not true

Belgian writer Misha Defonseca says her best-selling book about her horrific childhood was an elaborate fantasy she kept repeating, even as book was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France

Almost nothing Misha Defonseca wrote about herself or her horrific childhood during the Holocaust was true

She didn't live with a pack of wolves to escape the Nazis. She didn't trek 1,900 miles across Europe in search of her deported parents, nor kill a German soldier in self-defense

Defonseca, a Belgian writer now living in Massachusetts, admitted through her lawyers this week that her best-selling book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," was an elaborate fantasy

"This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving,"

"I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself in my place, of a 4-year-old girl who was very lost,"

writer tell the story in a Massachusetts synagogue.