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10 Facts About Rosemarie Pence

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Rosemarie Pence is a German-American woman who posed as a child Holocaust survivor from the Dachau Concentration Camp.

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Rosemarie 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.

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Rosemarie Pence had made an engraved headstone for her husband to corroborate her story, even though the Air Force master sergeant was alive.

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Rosemarie Pence stated that Pence suffers from schizophrenia and had been institutionalized in the 1960s.

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Rosemarie Pence stated that Rosemarie was indeed ethnically German, but that she had no Jewish ancestry.

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Messinger failed to investigate the claims that Rosemarie Pence made and took Rosemarie Pence's stories at face value.

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When confronted about the money, Rosemarie Pence wrote her a $200,000 check to cover the loans, interest and time, but the check bounced as Rosemarie Pence was unable to cover the funds.

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Longmont residents David and Deena Kicera let Rosemarie Pence move in with them during 2009 and supported her.

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Rosemarie Pence had asked Deena to carry her biography in the store, and the two struck up a friendship and Rosemarie Pence eventually moved into their home.

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Rosemarie Pence is wanted for felony theft and check fraud.