Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and thrilling life as an expert forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom and justice movements of the 20th century. Based on interviews and his recollections, the book reads like a gripping spy novel. Adolfo Kaminsky was recruited as a teenager to work with the French Resistance because of his talent for removing indelible inks. He made thousands of documents for which it is estimated he saved over 3000 men, women and children from certain death, and was himself interned with his family at Drancy. After the war, he worked secretly with other organizations to make papers for human rights cases. Sarah Kaminsky introduces us not only to her father's artistry and cleverness, but his great moral conscience and determination. Kaminsky never accepted money for his work and until his mid-eighties spoke nothing of his activities. Sarah Kaminsky, a talented screenwriter who wanted her young son to know his grandfather, convinced him to share his incredible story, and the result is a loud chorus of appreciation, not least from people and their descendants who owe their lives to his efforts.