https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg By: Sophia en-us 2019-02-27 15:23:58 UTC 2026-01-06 13:58:35 UTC hello@padlet.com sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160441 Javier calls Bentio on the phone to talk about Marco. Bentio talks about how he wanted to write a book. They just share common knowledge about Marco.]]> 2019-02-27 21:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160441 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160484 In 1949 Marco wanted to leave the country with his family. Then he was accused of theft and the police came to arrest him, but he wasn't at his house. He attended a family wedding and then disappeared. Time to time he would send money. He remarried and wanted to stay away from his family.]]> 2019-02-27 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160484 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160547 Marcos uncle was a big influence on him so he joined the war when he was 15 years old. Then after one of the "bloodiest" days in the war Marcos uncle passed away. Marco claims he re-joined the war. Except there no proof he ever entered the war.]]> 2019-02-27 21:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160547 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160670 Javier has another interview with Marco to find out why. Marco says he did it to feel loved, for his family, and for others around him.]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160670 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160684 When he meets him for the second time he decided he wanted to record their interview for his book.]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160684 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160714 Sense his mother was in an asylum he had to live with is father. His step mother was Teodosia and she was cruel to him. His uncle Anastasio adopted him.]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160714 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160760 Javier met Marco with the film director Santi. He thought Marco was a monster and did not like him.]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160760 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160784 Benito Bermejo exposed Marco in May 2005. Marco was forced to not participate in the ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the liberation at the concentration camps.]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160784 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160800 He first lied about his birthday being 2 days earlier. The he lied that he was deported and put into a Nazi concentration camp. ]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160800 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160822 Javier Cercas did not want to write the book. Then he met Marco in 2009. Marco was from Barcelona and lied about his past for 3 decades. ]]> 2019-02-27 21:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336160822 sleonard26 https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336221765 At the very end of the book Javier goes to Flossenburg with his son. They go to the basement of the camp to find the files of prisoners. They realize Marco changed the last name Mone to Marco when he got a hold of the files.]]> 2019-02-28 01:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sleonard26/qhb5jkuybcjg/wish/336221765