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https://www.economist.com/obituary/2023/01/19/adolfo-kaminsky-saved-thousands-of-jews-by-changing-their-identities
Young Adolfo
Old Adolfo
Adolfo's photos
dorenavant
He helped Jews and Algerians too.
SlappytheDummy
Good man ADOLFO!
kitticuskattus
What an amazing perso. These are the people who should have movies and be taught in school
albertawings30001
A true hero.
RexLibris
Your post made me do a little digging, I found this: https://youtu.be/OF2N6a3t6uY
graehall
Fucking hero
thereitis101
There’s a vigil tonight and I volunteered to read names of survivors. All are kids 10 and below. Each was a life to be snuffed out. Hero.
unionjack323
Thank you for sharing this, there truly are some incredible people out there
CplCarrot
Reminds me of an episode of Thats Life (?) where the whole audience were the children of Jews he had saved. There are good people.
amipretty
iExplainTheJoke
He kept forging documents until his 70s for left wing groups fighting right wing and fascist movements, he even helped US draft dodgers
iExplainTheJoke
During the Vietnam war
RexLibris
More biographies from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Kaminsky#In_the_media
itsjustplaid
Damn. A real hero, right there.
fckggle0074
I must add to this that his son, Rocé, is a famous highly political rapper with very deep lyrics. A true pioneer in French rap music
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notkvothethebloodless
Speaking of Jews did anyone watch season 2 of hunters yet?
Geistbar
Giving some numbers: wiki says he saved >14,000 lives in WW2. Rather incredible! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_Kaminsky
amergin
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Wallenberg saved thousands of Jews during WW2. Was likely later executed in Soviet prison.
Mewmus
He should have received the Nobel Peace Prize instead of gore or obama.
jamesCosmosBaron
I’m telling my kids it was George Santos… no I fucking won’t…
FellaWithUmbrella
Maybe Kaminsky saved Anthony Devolder by naming him George Santos?
ParryLost
If things keep going the way they're going people like this will be needed in America, forging birth certificates for trans folk and such...
Srcsqwrn
Basically has already started
Fedotia
I suspect that policeman's incompetency was on purpose, he knew what would happen to anyone given to the nazis.
EzraFell
That was a lovely read.
GadenKerensky
#1 They could've chosen a better picture, before I saw the text I saw the picture and thought this was about a serial killer.
meekodeeko
True hero! Friendly reminder his craft was illegal, ie. laws sometimes may make good guidelines, but should never be treated as definitive!
SenfinaZeit
Remember, if a law is unjust it is morally correct to break them! In fact MLK Jr called it a "moral responsibility" to break unjust laws.
spiderjohn36
That's my kind of revolutionary right there. I'm gonna do some more research. I'd love to read a biography on him.
Chouilste
I feel like I just did lol
hiiamluciole
well, his daughter wrote his biography but in French only i am afraid : Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire, (Calmann-Lévy)
spiderjohn36
There's an English translation available. I saw it on Amazon.
RexLibris
I was just thinking the same thing.
spiderjohn36
His daughter wrote a biography about him: Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life.
hoopsnek
Creative crime that helps people escape oppression is the best kind of crime. RIP to a WW2 hero. Sucks that he helped Irgun.
onepinksheep
Some causes are so murky that it's difficult to identify them as just or unjust until long after the fact.
JoshuaFalken
My wife and I have yet to get through to her dad that legality does not equate to morality.
CyborgScribe
Kohlberg in a nutshell