Published: 8 February 2019
Last updated: 5 March 2024
“[THE JEWS] FEEL PROTECTIVE and a degree of guardianship over the Holocaust story. I totally get that but maybe there’s room for both of us?”
That’s Holocaust romance writer Heather Morris defending her two controversial novels in a rather offensive and aggressive manner in a recent interview. Her statement is tone deaf and borderline anti-Semitic, according to one Jewish observer I spoke with.
So here’s the latest development: Even after literary critics and Holocaust scholars questioned the publication in 2018 of Heather Morris’ unvetted and un-fact-checked romantic sexcapade novel The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the Australian publisher has decided to ignore the criticism from the Auschwitz Memorial centre in Poland.
It now plans to forge ahead with the planned October release of a so-called “sequel” to the first novel in what is now said to be part of a four-part series.
New Zealand journalist Glenn McConnell, reporting from a news site in New Zealand, where Morris was born and raised, added fuel to literary fire with this headline: “Kiwi author Heather Morris vows to keep telling Holocaust survivor stories despite fierce criticism.”
So here’s the follow-up: A Bestselling New Zealand author vows to keep telling the stories of Holocaust survivors, despite vocal criticism from Auschwitz historians.
FULL STORY Australian author of sexy Holocaust romance accuses Jews of being ‘protective’ (Times of Israel)
