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Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life / Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; by translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Title
- Adolfo Kaminsky : a forger's life / Sarah Kaminsky ; photographs by Adolfo Kaminsky ; by translated by Mike Mitchell.
- Author
- Kaminsky, Sarah, 1979-
- Publication
- Los Angeles : DoppelHouse Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | D802.F8 K3613 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Mitchell, Mike
- Description
- xvii, 232 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a real-life forger for the French Resistance, the FLN, and numerous other freedom movements of the twentieth century. 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. 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. Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well into his eighties, until his daughter 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.
- Uniform Title
- Adolfo Kaminsky. English
- Alternative Title
- Adolfo Kaminsky.
- Forger's life
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Originally published in French as: Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780997003475
- 0997003472
- 9780997003406
- 0997003405
- OCLC
- 1022075556
- SCSB-12901899
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library