Adolfo or Adolphe Kaminsky was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents. He was regarded as the world's best forger creating documents that saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, spies and freedom fighters. What is so incredible about this is he did it for free, he was a forger and counterfeiter for purely humanitarian reasons. Kaminsky was born in Argentina and when he was 7 years old he and his family moved to Paris. During h... moreAdolfo or Adolphe Kaminsky was an Argentine-born member of the French Resistance, specializing in the forgery of identity documents. He was regarded as the world's best forger creating documents that saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, spies and freedom fighters. What is so incredible about this is he did it for free, he was a forger and counterfeiter for purely humanitarian reasons. Kaminsky was born in Argentina and when he was 7 years old he and his family moved to Paris. During his early teens Kaminsky worked in a dye shop and was fascinated with colorants and chemistry. At 18 he forged his first passport and joined the Resistance and at 20 he was aiding French secret agents who sought to go to German in search of concentration camps. From the 1960s he assisted various leftist movements from Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia, Perú, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, Saint-Domingue, Haiti). Africa (Guinea-Bissau, Angola, South Africa) and from Portugal (then under Salazar's dictatorship) and Francoist Spain. Jacques Falck made a documentary film about his life titled Forging Identity. His daughter Sarah also wrote a biography of her father titled Adolfo Kaminsky.
