Marie Sophie Hingst
German blogger and confabulator
- Born
- 20 October 1987, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- Died
- 17 July 2019, aged 31
Marie Sophie Hingst (20 October 1987 – 17 July 2019) was a German historian and blogger who falsely claimed to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Born in Wittenberg to a Protestant family, she fabricated a Jewish background and sent documentation for 22 misrepresented or non-existent relatives, whom she claimed were Holocaust victims, to the official Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.
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