(JTA) — Adolfo Kaminsky, the French-Jewish photographer, forger, smuggler and resistance fighter who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust as part of the French underground, died at 97 in his ...
Adolfo Kaminsky, a long-unheralded member of the French resistance who clandestinely inked and stamped false identity cards, baptismal certificates, ration books and other documents that meant the ...
Adolfo Kaminsky’s talent was as banal as could be: He knew how to remove supposedly indelible blue ink from paper. But it was a skill that helped save the lives of thousands of Jews in France during ...
Adolfo Kaminsky, who died Jan. 9 at age 97, was more than a French Resistance fighter who forged identity documents to help Jewish refugees during the Second World War. Born in Argentina of Russian ...
Working as part of a small group in a Parisian attic, the French Resistance fighter once helped to produce birth and baptism certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children marked for imminent ...
The policemAn was getting closer. As he shoved through the car in the Paris Metro he was shouting: “Identity check! General search!” The slight, bespectacled teenager shrank back in his seat and ...