Adolfo Kaminsky The Forger of Paris (eBook)

Authorized Biography. New and Expanded Edition

Sarah Kaminsky (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
227 Seiten
DoppelHouse Press (Verlag)
978-1-954600-97-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.The Forger of Parispresents Adolfo Kaminskys biography in its only authorized edition, expanded with photographs from Kaminsky's 2019 exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris and accompanied by essays from MAHJ director Paul Salmona and National Jewish Book Award winner Deborah Dash Moore.This necessary book provides unforgettable insights into hidden worlds of the Jews, intellectuals, and partisans who fought back.... has a thriller dimension that outshines even the best undercover fiction. Jewish Book CouncilAt 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, technical 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 Jewish 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 forge documents in secret for activists, refugees, human rights causes, and pacifists throughout the world.At a moment when someones passport, or religion, can still mean the difference between life and death, Mr. Kaminskys story remains painfully relevant, but inspiring. Filmmakers Samantha Stark, Alexandra Garcia and Pamela Druckerman for The New York TimesA triumphant wartime biography, full of heroism and near-alchemistic craftiness.Foreword Reviews

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2025
• Co-Autor: Deborah Dash MOORE, Paul Salmona
• Illustrationen: Adolfo Kaminsky
• Übersetzer: Mike Mitchell
• Zusatzinfo: Black and white photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Anti-Apartheid • anti-colonial • anti-fascist • biographical • counterfeit documents • Daughter • exile • Forgery • French Resistance • French Resistance forgery daughter Jewish Nazi occupation counterfeit documents underground operatives Holocaust WWII Shoah photographer World War II New York Times documentary biographical pacifists anti-apartheid anti-colonial anti-fascist immigrants exile Palestine Israel • holocaust wwii • Immigrants • Israel • Jewish • Nazi occupation • New York Times documentary • pacifists • Palestine • photographer • Shoah • underground operatives • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-954600-97-6 / 1954600976
• ISBN-13: 978-1-954600-97-3 / 9781954600973