As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper and in the Emmy-award-winning New York Times documentary, the gripping true story of a Jewish teenager who became "The Forger of Paris" for the French Resistance. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was recruited to join the Jewish underground. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and an artistic ability to reproduce official documents, he soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, creating papers that would save an estimated 14,000 men, women and children from certain death. Upon…mehr
As seen on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper and in the Emmy-award-winning New York Times documentary, the gripping true story of a Jewish teenager who became "The Forger of Paris" for the French Resistance. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was recruited to join the Jewish underground. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and an artistic ability to reproduce official documents, he soon became the primary forger for the Resistance in Paris, creating 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 refugees, anti-fascists, student movement leaders, freedom fighters, anti-apartheid activists, and pacifists throughout the world. "An engrossing literary debut." —Kirkus Reviews "... has a thriller dimension that outshines even the best undercover fiction." —Jewish Book Council "A triumphant wartime biography, full of heroism and near-alchemistic craftiness." —Foreword ReviewsHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sarah Kaminsky is a screenwriter, author, and actor. Born in Algeria in 1979 to an Ashkenazi Jewish father from Argentina and a Tuareg Algerian mother, Kaminsky immigrated to France at the age of three. Her 2009 book about her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, has sold widely throughout the world and has been translated into more than nine languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Turkish, Hebrew, Chinese, and Arabic. Her screenplays and writing credits are numerous and noteworthy, including for recent films "The Braid" (2023) and "Farewell, Mr. Haffmann" (2021), which earned an Audience Award at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. She lives in Paris.
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Author's Preface to the English Edition Prologue Chapters 1–16 Epilogue Afterword by Deborah Dash Moore Photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky from 1940s and 1950s Paris Biographies and Acknowledgments
Author's Preface to the English Edition Prologue Chapters 1–16 Epilogue Afterword by Deborah Dash Moore Photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky from 1940s and 1950s Paris Biographies and Acknowledgments
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