Title: Adolfo Kaminsky
Description: Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. Recruited as a young Jewish teenager for his knowledge of dyes, Kaminsky became the primary forger for the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Then, as a professional photographer, Kaminsky spent the next twenty-five years clandestinely producing thousands of counterfeit documents for immigrants, exiles, underground political operatives, and pacifists across the globe. 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.
Subjects: Jewish resistance, Forgery, Underground movements, World War, 1939-1945, Emigration and immigration, Forgers, Biography, History, France, biography, World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, france
Places: Palestine, Algeria, France
People: Adolfo Kaminsky (1926-)
Time periods: 20th century, Revolution, 1954-1962