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Adolfo Kaminsky
French resistance member and forger (1925-2023) · France · On the map · Artists · Died at 97
Adolfo Kaminsky was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents (IDs), and a photographer. During World War II, he forged papers that saved the lives of more than 14,000 Jews.
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He later assisted Jewish immigration to the British Mandate for Palestine and then forged identity documents for the Algerian National Liberation Front and French draft dodgers during the Algerian War (1954-62). He forged papers for thirty years for different activist groups, mainly national liberation fronts, without ever requiring payment in order to preserve his freedom.
