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Show DAILY Sunday, March 2. 2008 HERALD Holocaust Belgian author of best-sellisurvival story says it's fiction, not fact C5 Celebrations ng Constant Brand THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A BRUSSELS, Belgium Belgian writer has admitted g that she made up her "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived w ith a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday. Misha Defonseca's book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Hobest-sellin- locaust Years," was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France. Her two Brussels-baselawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack of wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II. "I ask forgiveness to all who. felt betrayed," Defonseca said, according to a written statement the lawyers gave to The Associated Press. d Defonseca, 71, now lives in Dudley, Mass. Her husband, Maurice, told The Boston Globe on Thursday that she would not comment. Defonseca wrote in her book that Nazis seized her parents when she was a child, forcing her to wander the forests and villages of Europe alone for four years. She claimed she '" found herself trapped in the Warsaw ghetto, killed a Nazi soldier in and was adopted by a pack of wolves that protected her. In the statement, Defonseca acknowledged the story she wrote was a fantasy and that she never fled her home in Brussels during the war to find her parents. e Gudmundson ' jy JOHN BLANDINGBoston Globe left and Vera Lee, who are of a memoir of Misha' s childhood during the Holocaust, pose for a photograph on Sept. 20, 2001, in Newton, Mass. Defonseca g admitted through her lawyer on Friday that her tale of about living with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust was fiction, not fact. Misha Defonseca Clair Maurice Gudmundson of Provo will be 100 years old on March 8. His family is hosting a reception for friends and relatives on Sat., Mar. 8 from 9 PM at the Grandview Ninth Ward LDS Meetinghouse on 1555 N. 1350 W. in Provo. Cards, best-sellin- i f Defonseca says her real name is Monique De Wael and that her parents were arrested and killed by Nazis as Belgian resistance fighters, the statement said. "This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving," the statement said. "I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself in my place, of a girl who was very lost," the statement said. . The statement said her parents were arrested when she was 4 and she. was taken care of by her grandfather and uncle. She said she was poorly treated by her adopted family, called a "daughter of a traitor" because of her parents' role in the resistance, which she said led her to "feel Jewish." She said there were moments when she "found it difficult to differentiate between what was real and what was part of my imagination." photos, and written memories are welcome, but no gifts, please. Born in Provo and raised in Springville, Gudmundson married the late Zelta Lucas in 1932 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They served a mission . in Manchester, England and the London Temple and worked in the Provo Temple. They have Nathalie Uyttendaele said she and her brother contacted , the author last weekend to show her material discovered by Belgian daily Le Soir, which questioned her story. "We gave her this information and it was very difficult. She was confronted with a reality that is different from what she has been living for 70 years," Nathalie Uyttendaele Dear Seventeen I Boys can be so frustrating! One minute you're sure everythen out thing is going great of nowhere, it's like they don't even know you. You might be thinking, What did I do wrong? 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