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Kaminsky, Sarah, 1979-
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Kaminsky, Adolfo, 1926-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
Forgery -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France.
Forgers -- Biography.
Forgers -- France -- History.
Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
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Kaminsky, Sarah, 1979-
Kaminsky, Adolfo, 1926-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
Forgery -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France.
Forgers -- Biography.
Forgers -- France -- History.
Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
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Adolfo Kaminsky : a
forger
's
life
/ Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; translated by Mike Mitchell.
by
Kaminsky, Sarah, 1979-
DoppelHouse Press, [2016]
Call #:
940.5344 K15k
Subjects
Kaminsky, Adolfo, 1926-
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements.
Forgery -- History.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France.
Forgers -- Biography.
Forgers -- France -- History.
Palestine -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962.
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View "My Father, the Forger", a TED talk by Sarah Kaminsky (In French, with English subtitles).
ISBN:
9780997003475 (pbk.)
9780997003406 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire. English
Alternate title:
Forger
's
life
Description:
xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2009),
Originally published in French as: Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2009).
Summary:
French actress and writer Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life
forger
. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully re-produce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. He soon became the primary
forger
for the Resistance in Paris, working tirelessly with his network to create papers that would save an estimated 14,000 men, women and children from certain death. Upon the Liberation and for the next twenty-five years Kaminsky worked as a professional photographer. But, recognizing the fight for freedom had not ended with the defeat of the Nazis, and driven by his own harrowing experiences, he continued to secretly forge documents for thousands of refugees, exiles, immigrants, freedom fighters and pacifists. Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well into his eighties, until his daughter convinced him to share the details of the life-threatening work he did on behalf of people fighting for justice and peace throughout the world.
Other authors:
Mitchell, Mike, translator.
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