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Rosemarie Pence (formerly Hannah Pence; born c. 1938) is a German-American woman known for posing as a child Holocaust survivor from the Dachau Concentration Camp. Pence became the subject of a fake biography titled ''Hannah: From Dachau to the Olympics and Beyond'' published in 2005. Her fabrications, which included fake Jewish background (as Hannah), were discovered in 2009. By 2012 she was wanted in Colorado's Boulder County on an arrest warrant for the theft of more than $20,000 and check fraud.〔〔 ==Claims== Pence claimed that as a three year old she was taken from her family of German Jews and deported to the Dachau Concentration Camp during World War II. While at the camp, she was the subject of medical experimentation and starvation before being freed by American forces. After liberation, she went to live in a convent with nuns who taught her how to ski. Using those skiing skills, Pence claimed that she competed on Germany's 1956 Olympic ski team in the 1956 Winter Olympics. Other claims included living in a kibbutz in Israel, her fighter pilot husband being shot down during the Vietnam War, "a scare during the 1972 Olympics, an audience with the Pope, an encounter with Ronald Reagan at the Berlin Wall and an airplane hijacking by a Palestinian terrorist." She also claimed that she was to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Oklahoma by her "old friend, the Queen of the Netherlands." Building on her claims, Pence earned speaking fees at schools and other organizations because of her incredible life stories. One such school was the University of Colorado, where Pence led a seminar called "A Horrifying Experience." It was revealed that her husband Wayne Pence, who had supposedly been shot down during the war, was actually living in another state and had been searching for their son Brian that Pence took from him when Brian was still a toddler. Pence had made an engraved headstone for her husband to corroborate her story, even though the Air Force master sergeant was alive. He stated that Pence suffers from schizophrenia and had been institutionalized in the 1960s. He also stated that Pence was indeed ethnically German, but that she had no Jewish ancestry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosemarie Pence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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