El impostor
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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.
Errors, inventionsImpostors and impostureFictionHistoriaErrores, InventosFicciónImpostoresHistorySpain, historyHolocaust, jewish (1939-1945)New York Times reviewedBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws