He also forged documents for Americans seeking to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War. He continued to support causes all over the world with his forgery skills, from the Algerian independence movement to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. As his biography (written by his daughter Sarah) chronicles, Kaminsky didn't stop at the end of the war. It is estimated that he and his fellow Resistance members saved the lives of 14,000 Jewish people using forged documents. A Jew living in occupied France, Kaminsky joined the French Resistance as a forger at age 17. Two of the more notable forgers - heroes who saved hundreds of Jewish lives - were Adolfo Kaminsky (1925-) and Alice Cohn (1914-2000).Īdolfo Kaminsky's story is a fascinating one. While Eva, the gifted young Jewish forger in Kristin Harmel's The Book of Lost Names, may be a fictional character, the work she did and the risks she took were realities during World War II. This article relates to The Book of Lost Names
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