Book
Adolfo KaminskySarah Kaminsky

Adolfo Kaminsky

2011230 pages
Be the first to rate
2 editions · 2 languages
HistoricalNonfiction

Track this book

You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
Sign up to track
Add to list

About

Best-selling author Sarah Kaminsky takes readers through her father Adolfo Kaminsky's perilous and clandestine career as a 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…

Reviews

Rating integrity

Healthy
Counted ratings come from accounts older than 7 days and were made on or after publication. Finished readers weigh ×1.0. Readers who have not finished yet weigh ×0.5. Did-not-finish ratings are shown but not counted.

Editions

2 editions · 2 languages
  • Hardcover · English · 2016
    DoppelHouse Press · 232 pages · 9780997003406
  • Other · Spanish · 2011
    Capital Intelectual · 227 pages · 9789876143103
Jewish resistanceForgeryUnderground movementsWorld War, 1939-1945Emigration and immigrationForgersBiographyHistory