El Impostor / The Impostor

Description:

An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.

subjects: Errors, inventions,  Impostors and imposture,  Fiction,  Historia,  Errores, Inventos,  Ficción,  Impostores,  History,  Spain, history,  Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945),  New York Times reviewed,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws,  HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal,  HISTORY / Holocaust

People: Enric Marco (1921-)

Places: Spain