FREE ADOLFO KAMINSKY: A FORGERS LIFE PDF Sarah Kaminsky,Mike Mitchell,Adolfo Kaminsky | 256 pages | 04 Oct 2016 | DoppelHouse Press | 9780997003475 | English | Los Angeles, United States Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger’s Life Hardcover and paperback. Ebook also available. The gripping true story of Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life erstwhile forger who worked for the French Resistance, the Algerian Independence Movement, and numerous clandestine organizations over the span of nearly thirty years. At the age of seventeen Adolfo Kaminsky had narrowly escaped deportation to Auschwitz and was living in Nazi occupied Paris, using forged documents to hide in plain sight. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his ability to masterfully re-produce official documents with an artistic eye, he was recruited to join the Jewish underground. 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 secretly forge documents for thousands of refugees, exiles, immigrants, Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life fighters and pacifists. Kaminsky kept his past cloaked in secrecy well into his later life, until his daughter and biographer Sarah Kaminsky convinced him to share the details of the life- threatening work he Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life on behalf of people fighting for justice and peace throughout the world. Photo: Adolfo Kaminsky. An engrossing literary debut. A thrilling, novelesque account of how a young man became a sought-after subversive force. Highly recommended for biography and history collections of all libraries. Sarah Kaminsky has done a masterful job. A suspenseful, captivating, and thrilling account of an exceptionally brave and daring man. Fascinates as a case study of a man driven by a lifelong compulsion, a psychological need, to combat oppression […] A moving portrait of a compelling figure in a field rarely occupied by noble persons struggling to combat evil and right wrongs. Ably translated, the prose carries the tension of a spy novel. These harrowing moments of history are recreated through interviews with Mr. Treadwel, Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. View a selection of these articles. In the shadows, Kaminsky lived the brightest hours of the Resistance. He served almost every major revolutionary or subversive cause in the world from the upheavals of the s until the end of the turbulent s. Only then did he decide to tell his Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life story, under the gentle prodding of his youngest daughter, actress Sarah Kaminsky. A touching story traversing a century in clandestine Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life crossings. It is a powerful homage, written with a casual, if poignant, simplicity, often masking heartfelt conundrums. If made into a film, the life of Adolfo Kaminsky would have all the ingredients of suspense thriller, war movie, historical tragedy, intimate drama and scenes of terror. She has a son and lives in Paris. Adolfo Kaminskyof Russian Jewish origins Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life carrying an Argentinean passport, made his living in Paris as a photographer in various fields: postcards, advertising photos, and photo reportage while, at the same time, working clandestinely as an unpaid forger for humanitarian causes. He photographed numerous works of art for exhibition catalogs and posters, and he was the regular documentarian for French painters who were precursors of kinetic art. He also took thousands of artistic photographs throughout his life, but has only recently started exhibiting them. Adolfo Kaminsky and Sarah Kaminsky. Photo: Amit Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life. Mike Mitchell is an award-winning translator of French and German who has been active as a translator for over thirty years. He is the recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations of German works published in Britain, has won the British Comparative Literature Association translation competition twice for translations from German and received commendation for a translation from French. Inthe Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture, awarded him a lifetime achievement award as a translator of literary works. He lives in Scotland. Thank you for alerting us to the review. We will let the author and her father know. So glad you Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life the book! Facebook Email LinkedIn Twitter. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Adolfo Kaminsky - Wikipedia Critics have called it riveting, thrilling, Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life and touching, written like one of the best spy novels, and one of the most captivating books of the year. Due to his expert knowledge of dyes and his artistic craft in reproducing documents, he soon became the primary forger in Paris, creating papers that saved an estimated 14, Jewish men, women, and children from certain death. Kaminsky, who was interned with his family in the French concentration camp Drancy, avoided deportation to Auschwitz because they had passports from Argentina, where they had first emigrated from Russia, before moving Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life France. For the next twenty-five years he lived a double life — working as a professional photographer and secretly producing Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life documents. One of his first assignments was for the Haganah to create papers so that homeless concentration camp survivors could settle in Palestine. This real-life story offers a rare look into the personal sacrifices that Kaminsky endured, the effect of his political commitments on his family, and motivation, and his unending hopes for justice in an increasingly violent world. Watch in Times Video. Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. Learn More. A Project of the cultural services of the french embassy. In English. Free and open to the public with RSVP to rsvp. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on Albertine events and more! Sarah Kaminsky. Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life. Sign up. Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky Adolfo Kaminsky or Adolphe ; born 1 October is a former member of the French Resistancespecializing in the forgery of identity documents. He later went on to assist Jewish immigration to the British Mandate for Palestine and Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life to forge identity documents for the National Liberation Front and French draft dodgers during the Algerian War — He forged papers for thirty years for different activist groups, mainly national liberation frontswithout ever claiming payment for it. Kaminsky was born in Argentina to a Jewish family from Russia. From Paris, the family moved in to VireCalvadoswhere his uncle was established. He bought at that time a treatise by Marcellin Berthelot at a flea market. Inafter the German invasion of Francethe family house in Vire was taken by the Germans and Kaminsky temporarily lived in another house, in which Michel Drucker 's father was also hosted. Aged 17, Adolfo Kaminsky entered the Resistance. At first he watched the railway station at Vire from where railcars of the Todt Organizationloaded with material for the Atlantic Walltransited. He sent messages to London about these trains. However, in his family was interned in the camp of Drancyas a prelude to deportation. He was introduced to the network, the Resistance group, while researching a false ID for his father. Adolfo suggested they use lactic acidand thereafter joined the group, finally becoming responsible for the chemical forgery lab. Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life also quickly learned photogravure under a false pretext, and set up a new lab in order to create "real-false" documents. The Kaminsky Lab became the main producer of false IDs for northern France and Beneluxalthough ties with other clandestine groups were discontinued, each group working as a cell. He used to say: "Keep awake. The longer possible. Struggle against sleep. The calculation is easy. In one hour, I make 30 false papers. If I sleep one hour, 30 people will die. After the German capitulation, he helped forge documents for Jews attempting to immigrate to the British Mandate for Palestine from toin defiance of British immigration restrictions see also Bricha. He also assisted operatives from the anti-British militant groups Irgun and Lehi as they waged a violent campaign against the British. After the foundation of Israel, he stopped doing this Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life, refusing to support a "religious state", endorsed by the secular- religious status quo and giving an important role to the Chief Rabbinate of Israeland became a photographer. He resigned from the French military at the beginning of the First Indochina Warunwilling to collaborate in a colonial war. He thereafter continued to forge papers for various groups, working first with the National Liberation Front of Algeria and French draft dodgers by setting up a clandestine lab in Paris. In he produced a cubic meter of Franc notes estimated value million Francs to help the FLN fight by destabilising the French currency Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life thus the economy. When the cease-fire was declared in Marchthe notes were burnt in a Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life bonfire. Money always leads to problems. He always worked for free, in order to be able to refuse a job if he didn't support the ideas - the only exception being during World War II, when the lab took up all his expenses in order to make him able to dedicate himself full-time to this job. He also supported the Greeks struggling against the regime of the Colonelsand made false ID papers for American draft dodgers during the Vietnam War. Inhe also made a false ID for Daniel Cohn-Bendit to allow him to speak at a meeting - he would later on say: " It was certainly the least useful, but a way of showing that there is nothing more porous than a Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life and Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forgers Life ideas don't know them ".