Enric Marco
Creu de Sant Jordi Award
in 2001Enric Marco (12 April 1921 – 21 May 2022) was a Catalonian
Mauthausen and Flossenbürg in World War II. He was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Catalan government in 2001 and wrote a book on his experiences. In 2005 he admitted his claims were false and returned his medal, after his deception was revealed by university researcher Benito Bermejo
.
Marco was born in
After 2001 Marco represented an association of survivors of the thousands of
Spaniards
who had truly been deported to Nazi concentration camps.
From 1978 to 1979, Marco, a metal worker, had been the General Secretary of the Spanish anarchist Union CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo), from which he was expelled in 1980.
Marco died on 21 May 2022, at the age of 101.[3]
Popular culture
- "Ich bin Enric Marco" directed by Santiago Fillol and Lucas Vermal, produced by Corte y Confección de películas
Bibliography
- Memorias del infierno,[4] (Memories or Memoir of Hell) by Enric Marco, 1978. Spanish.[5]
- El impostor by Javier Cercas - (2014, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Spain)
See also
- Misha Defonseca
- Martin Grey
- Herman Rosenblat
- Rosemarie Pence
- Binjamin Wilkomirski
- Javier Cercas
References
- ^ How Spanish Nazi victim Enric Marco was exposed as impostor
- ^ "Spanish Nazi camp 'survivor' lied". A leading representative of Holocaust survivors in Spain has admitted to being "an impostor". BBC. 12 May 2005.
- ^ "Enric Marco: In Memóriam". Rojo y Negro. 25 June 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.
- ^ Pere Riera Obiol (2012). "Memorias del infierno". FALSAS memorias Holocausto. Autobiografías. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ^ Giles Tremlett in Madrid (12 May 2005). "Spain's concentration camp hero is exposed as a fraud". The Guardian. World News. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
External links
- The Times, 14 May 2005.
- Times online. [Forced redirect]
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