# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/misha-defonseca
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:55:36.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/misha-defonseca"
name: "Misha Defonseca"
slug: "misha-defonseca"
description: "Misha Defonseca is a Belgian-born impostor and the author of a fraudulent 1997 Holocaust memoir titled Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, initially presented as true."
tagline: "Belgian writer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/74fwMvl0O3Bx5stPbTNa1c2x0Tp.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1937-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.47
  momentum:             10
  historical:           14.121192
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6570587/"
    handle:    "nm6570587"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "ميشا ديفونسيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B0"
    title: "Дефонсека, Миша"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Міша Дефонсека"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q464656"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/54196"
    title: "Misha Defonseca"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump