Bibliograph

Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger's life, Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; by translated by Mike Mitchell

Type

Label

Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger's life, Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; by translated by Mike Mitchell

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Adolfo Kaminsky

Oclc number

959418847

Responsibility statement

Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; by translated by Mike Mitchell

Sub title

a forger's life

Summary

Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Forger's life

Classification