Sharon Sergeant

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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 UniversityScript error: No such module "Unsubst". and received a bachelor's degree from Boston University.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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

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  1. a b Judith Rosen. "Does Publishing Need Genealogists?", Publishers Weekly, Jan. 12, 2009. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  2. Barbara Taormina. "Bad moon rising: The truth behind a Holocaust hoax," The Daily News Tribune, Mar. 7, 2008. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  3. Blake Eskin. "Crying Wolf Why did it take so long for a far-fetched Holocaust memoir to be debunked?", Slate, Feb 29, 2008.
  4. Blake Eskin, "The Girl Who Cried Wolf: A Holocaust fairy tale", Boston Magazine, September 2008. Script error: No such module "webarchive".
  5. Kayla Habermehl, "MSU professor debunks couple's Holocaust hoax", The State News, January 14, 2009.
  6. Caleb Daniloff, "Untrue stories: a Genealogist Reveals the Truth About Three Holocaust Memoirs: They're Fiction", Bostonia, Summer 2008

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