(JTA) -- A publisher does not have to pay writer Misha Defonseca for her false memoir about surviving the Holocaust with the help of wolves, a Massachusetts appeals court ruled.

A panel of judges ruled Wednesday that Mt. Ivy Press owner Jane Daniel does not have to pay Defonseca $22.5 million, but that it owes $10 million to ghost writer Vera Lee, who did not know that the story was a hoax. The money was awarded to the writers by a lower court in a dispute over the best-selling book's profits.

In Defonseca's bestselling book "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years,” she wrote that she was Jewish and had survived the Holocaust as a child by wandering through Europe under the protection of a pack of wolves.

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