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Oprah called the tale of love in a concentration camp that lies at the heart of Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat's controversial memoir, "The greatest love story ever told." But when his story is attacked as the greatest lie ever sold, and his memoir canceled, Rosenblat must defend his narrative. The Apple recounts Herman's authentic account of surviving Nazi concentration camps with his family. It also explores his made-up story about a girl he said helped him by tossing apples into the camp, a girl he encounters again after war in New York and marries. Why did an old man embellish his authentic Holocaust story with a romantic fiction that won him appearances on the Oprah Show, which and touched and inspired many, but also created a firestorm of criticism when his fabrication was revealed?