The last Sunday Edition of the New York Times brought an article (and video) on Adolfo Kaminsky's role in helping Jewish refugees during the Second World War.
In 1944 Kaminsky joined an underground resistance movement in Paris that forged documents for Jews so that they escape the inevitable deportation to concentration camps in Poland. Priority was given to children and at times long working hours were necessary to complete urgent requests: at the rate of 30 passports an hour, 900 passports can be produced in 30 hours... for every hour of sleep, 30 people will die.
Kaminsky's life as a forger continued into the 1970s as he helped people flee from various afflicted areas of the globe. At 91 today, Kaminsky is proud of having lived a happy life with loving wife and children... yet he still thinks of all the lives he could not save and of people presently facing similar perils.
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