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[Sarah Kaminsky] ↠ Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life A great (and true) story of Nazis, the Resistance, and a hero of France Pine wind Fans of Alan Furst will love this well-written, true story of a man whose actions saved thousands. Adolfo Kaminsky helped save untold numbers of lives by providing false identity papers to Jews and others fleeing the authorities in Nazi occupied France. Although barely 18, his knowledge of cloth dying gave him the skills to both create and erase inks of any color. With this he created identity documents fro. Grippi
| Title | : | Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.12 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0997003472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. 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. Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy.- Kirkus ReviewsAdolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, the genius-forger who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French Resis
A great (and true) story of Nazis, the Resistance, and a hero of France Pine wind Fans of Alan Furst will love this well-written, true story of a man whose actions saved thousands. Adolfo Kaminsky helped save untold numbers of lives by providing false identity papers to Jews and others fleeing the authorities in Nazi occupied France. Although barely 18, his knowledge of cloth dying gave him the skills to both create and erase inks of any color. With this he created identity documents fro. Gripping, true spy/forger adventure, too unbelievable to be fiction Rachel Jenkins I downloaded the book, intending to read it later, then thought I'd read "the first page," but ended up reading for the rest of the day, sitting on the edge of my seat. Too unbelievable to be fiction, too filled with wild coincidences; a young Jewish boy couldn't continue his education in Paris past elementary school, so was apprentice to clothes dyer, doing his own chemical research at home to become, at 1
Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy.- Kirkus ReviewsAdolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, the genius-forger who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various causes around the world.”- TEDA detailed and touching story traversing a century in clandestine shadow crossings, where Adolfo's skill meant life or death.- Libération, FranceRiveting.- Haaretz, IsraelTechnical prowess, creativity, and self-denial drive the plot in the incredibly
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