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'Misha and the Wolves' is a stranger-than-fiction documentary about a woman's Holocaust story Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY Replay Video The riveting "Misha and the Wolves," which premiered this month at Sundance Film Festival and was picked up for release by Netflix, tells the unbelievable story of writer Misha Defonseca, a Belgian woman living in Massachusetts with a jaw-dropping tale of how she survived the Holocaust.  In the mid-1990s, Defonseca told her friends about growing up as a young Jewish girl during World War II and being sent to live with a Catholic family after ...

She Fled the Nazis and Was Raised By Wolves. It Was All a Lie. Marlow Stern © Provided by The Daily Beast Sundance Film Festival It was on Holocaust Remembrance Day that Misha Defonseca chose to share her story of survival for the first time. Surrounded by friends and neighbors, she stood up at the Temple Beth Torah in Holliston, Mass., and told them—through tears—that after her Belgian parents were hauled off by the Nazis, she was placed in the care of a Catholic family who gave her a new name: Monique de Wael. Then, at the age of 7, she embarked on a trek from Belgium...

Enjoyable if you're seeking playfulness and not substance. TWITTER Sam Hobkinson's documentary explores a (literally) unbelievable story of Holocaust survival — and why people choose to believe. Fox Mulder made the slogan "I Want To Believe" iconic with his UFO poster on The X-Files, but the reason it has spawned so much memorabilia and so many memes is that it speaks to a very human desire. We're a credulous species, even if we're aware that con men and fraudsters abound. It's programmed into us to want to believe, no matter how outlandish a bill of goods we're being sold. Sam Hobkinson's...

‘Misha And The Wolves’ Review: Sundance Documentary Recounts A Woman’s Holocaust Tale Too Amazing To Be True Deadline 1/31/2021 The gripping Sundance documentary Misha and the Wolves, premiering at the festival today, possesses a fairy tale-like quality, beginning with its title. Those four words evoke ancient stories of children deep in the woods, threatened by menacing animals, as in Little Red Riding Hood. The similarities go further. The documentary tells the story of Misha Defonseca, a woman living inMassachusetts who purported to be a Holocaust survivor. She told neighbors a re...

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