Adolfo Kaminsky, Sarah Kaminsky
Adolfo Kaminsky, Sarah Kaminsky
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Adolfo Kaminsky
A Forger's Life

Author: Sarah Kaminsky, Mike Mitchell

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 5 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2017


Synopsis

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 reproduce 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 later life, until his daughter and biographer Sarah Kaminsky 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.

About Sarah Kaminsky

Sarah Kaminsky is an actress, screenwriter, and author born in Algeria. She was three years old when she immigrated to France with her father Adolfo Kaminsky, two brothers, and her mother Leila, a Tuareg Algerian, law student, and anti-colonial activist whose father was a progressive imam. Sarah Kaminsky's first book is the bestselling biography of her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, published by Éditions Calmann-Levy in 2009 and now translated into seven languages. She has a son and lives in Paris.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sofialibrary on January 09, 2021

Foi bom começar o ano com um não ficção que cativa, de fácil e rápida leitura, com factos reais e interessantes. Kaminsky é um judeu argentino que dedicou grande parte do seu tempo a falsificar documentos, desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial até aos anos 70, sem receber qualquer compensação financeira so......more

Goodreads review by Xing on November 23, 2016

A riveting and sometimes heart-wrenching biography on the life of a forger who devoted himself to emancipation of people and independence of nations. As a teenager, Kaminsky worked on a dairy farm, where he performed chemical tests to verify the quality of milk from suppliers. He avidly perused chem......more

Goodreads review by William on October 12, 2016

Adolofo Kaminsky:A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky This is one of those books that has all kinds of accolades. I found it interesting but not compelling or captivating. I'm sure all the notables who raved about this book had good reasons to rave. I found myself interested but not enthralled. The book......more

Goodreads review by Anita on March 09, 2023

This wasn't so much about WWII as about the life of one underground, subversive person driven by relentless high standards and the belief that everyone deserves life regardless of their ethnicity and the current political stance on that particular group. "If I sleep one hour, thirty children will die......more

Goodreads review by sarka on April 03, 2025

přečteno šíleně dávno, tak jen zaznamenávám abych se kdyžtak mohla vrátit. vzpomínka na silný příběh si vysloužila 4*......more