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trouvere (not verified) says:
Not many people know that Weisel was actually an Israeli citizen for a brief period after the War. In fact he was employed by the Irgun as a writer at the time of the Deir Yassin massacre. However, shortly thereafter he chose to launch a career in the United States as a "homeless victim." So successful was he in adopting this new persona that he apparently forgot all about Deir Yassin--he has never spoken out about it to this day.
Phil should be a little more critical in his reading: when it first came out in the 1950s, Weisel's book "Night" was originally classified (by its publisher) as fiction, and described by reviewers as a novel. It was only last year that, by a stroke of amazing coincidence, major online booksellers all quietly changed its classification to "nonfiction."
Not many people know that Weisel was actually an Israeli citizen for a brief period after the War. In fact he was employed by the Irgun as a writer at the time of the Deir Yassin massacre. However, shortly thereafter he chose to launch a career in the United States as a "homeless victim." So successful was he in adopting this new persona that he apparently forgot all about Deir Yassin--he has never spoken out about it to this day.
Phil should be a little more critical in his reading: when it first came out in the 1950s, Weisel's book "Night" was originally classified (by its publisher) as fiction, and described by reviewers as a novel. It was only last year that, by a stroke of amazing coincidence, major online booksellers all quietly changed its classification to "nonfiction."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181986,00.html