21. Freedom’s Forger
By the time the Germans were kicked out of France, Adolfo Kaminsky had produced fake documents that helped save over 14,000 Jewish men, women, and children, from the horrors of the Holocaust. After the war, he worked as a professional photographer. However, he also continued his clandestine work as a master forger, lending his talents to disadvantaged peoples and liberation causes around the world.
Adolfo created documents for thousands of freedom fighters, such as the Algerian FLN, refugees, exiles, and pacifists. As the Jerusalem Post summed his career: “He grew to be a humanist forger, a utopian outlaw, the Robin Hood of false papers, preparing passports and identity cards for the world’s oppressed.”