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.

Description

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich. The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud."

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Other Editions

• Impostor: A True StoryQuercus2017-01-01
• El impostorLiteratura Random House2014-01-01
• El Impostor / The ImpostorPaperbackDebolsillo2016-08-30
• Der falsche ÜberlebendeHardcoverFISCHER, S.2017-05-01
• ImpostorQuercus2018-01-01
• The impostorAlfred A. Knopf2018-01-01