Sharon Sergeant
Sharon Sergeant is an American forensic genealogist who specializes in researching and tracing international fraud cases, property settlements, and provenance of artifact collections. She also conducts biographical research for historians, publishers, authors, and journalists. Sergeant attended Northeastern University[citation needed] and received a bachelor's degree from Boston University.[citation needed] She lives in Waltham, Massachusetts.
She was involved in exposing two high-profile literary frauds in 2008, Misha Defonseca and Herman Rosenblat.[1]
Cases
Sergeant and Colleen Fitzpatrick led the team that exposed Misha Defonseca's bestselling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years as a hoax.[2][3][4]
She also worked with the team that exposed Herman Rosenblat's book, Angel at the Fence, as a fraudulent account of his time as a concentration camp survivor.[1][5][6]
References
- ^ a b Judith Rosen. "Does Publishing Need Genealogists?", Publishers Weekly, Jan. 12, 2009. Archived January 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Barbara Taormina. "Bad moon rising: The truth behind a Holocaust hoax," The Daily News Tribune, Mar. 7, 2008. Archived June 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Blake Eskin. "Crying Wolf Why did it take so long for a far-fetched Holocaust memoir to be debunked?", Slate, Feb 29, 2008.
- ^ Blake Eskin, "The Girl Who Cried Wolf: A Holocaust fairy tale", Boston Magazine, September 2008. Archived May 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kayla Habermehl, "MSU professor debunks couple's Holocaust hoax", The State News, January 14, 2009.
- ^ Caleb Daniloff, "Untrue stories: a Genealogist Reveals the Truth About Three Holocaust Memoirs: They're Fiction", Bostonia, Summer 2008