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People look at portraits of Holocaust survivors on a street in Vienna, Austria, on May 16, 2019.
People look at portraits of Holocaust survivors on a street in Vienna, Austria, on May 16, 2019.
Hingst, who lives in Dublin, rose to prominence because of her stories about her alleged Jewish ancestors, who tragically died in the times of the Holocaust. These were published on her blog 'Read on my dear, read on' (now offline), which she started back in 2013 in Dublin. The blog featured accounts of her grandfather in particular, who she said was killed in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
Her exploits did not go unnoticed as, at some point, her blog reached a whopping 240,000 readers while she was named 'blogger of the year' and awarded by the Golden Bloggers association - the group behind one of the major German social media influencers' awards.
Hingst was also invited to moderate panel discussions for the association of patrons of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial and frequently spoke on behalf of relatives of the Holocaust victims, according to the German press.
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