August 28, 2008 Author of Holocaust book fights for millions Play video

(Jennifer Eagan, NECN) - Misha Defonseca wrote "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust years". She claimed it was her tale of holocaust survival.

The book sold roughly five thousand copies in the United States but became a bestseller in Europe.

It was used in public schools to teach about the holocaust...a catastrophe.

A catastrophe because this memoir is nothing but fiction.

Earlier this year...the seventy one year old Dudley resident admitted that she made up her tale of holocaust survival.

She never trekked 3 thousand miles across Europe or escaped the Nazis...as the book claims.

Jane Daniel...the publisher of the book in the U.S....is trying to overturn a court judgment ordering her to pay Defonseca over 32 million dollars.

The case was taken up at Middlesex superior court Thursday.

That judgment that she won she won by fraud...so no she's not entitled to the money.

Defonseca had sued Daniel for breach of contract back in 2001...claiming Daniel didn't promote the book as promised.

Daniel says she doesn't owe the author a dime because the book is a lie.