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During the holocaust, Jews were being constantly slaughtered. Forged documents meant that they would get out of the country and escape Hitler's "Final Solution." Everyday, the forgers risked their lives to save others. They could have been discovered, turned in, or betrayed. If that happened, the forgers could be killed. This was the concern everyday for the forgers. However, the forgers saved thousands of Jews and many are still alive today.
Oscar Rosowsky was born in Berlin, Germany. Rosowsky was a forger during the Holocaust. When Oscar was a teenager, he forged someone's name to stop his mother from being sent to Auschwitz. Thankfully, it worked.
Because anti-semitic laws prevented him from being a doctor, he was forced into a job repairing typewriters. This is where he started learning the skills he needed to forge new identities for the people he saved. He managed to save a total of 3,500 refugees with his forging skills.
In 1942, 19 year old Rosowsky had come home from a scout camp to find that his father, Ruben, was arrested. He was taken to Auschwitz. Ruben died right before the war ended, when the Nazi’s forced the skeletal prisoners to walk in sub-zero temperatures.
Adolfo Kaminsky was a forger during the holocaust trying to fight for freedom. Adolfo invented solutions to technical problems, as well as developing skill as a photographer. His forgery for the French Resistance saved over 14,000 lives. His daughter Sarah found some of his documents when she was rather young, and she was very confused because they were her real documents. But she also found a document from the army, thanking Adolfo Kaminsky for his secret service to the army by forging documents. Sarah finally found out his story when he was 77 years old. The story was so intriguing to her she decided to write a book about it. The book is now one of the most well known books about forgery during the holocaust.
Adolfo Kaminsky Today
Source: CBS News
Fry was a journalist from
the US. He worked to
help refugees escape
from Nazis in France.
Agmon Tzipora was born in Tiachiv, Ukraine on August 13, 1920.
In 1940 she moved to Budapest where she worked in a hostel for apprentices. In 1943 she was hospitalized due to arthritis. After the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, she joined the underground forgers. Her job was to find apartments where the forgers could hide. She also distributed forged documents all over Hungary to Ghettos and even forced labor camps.
Source: raoulwallenberg.net
She helped to free a member of their movement from the basement of a detention camp where he had been tortured by the Gestapo.Agmon helped transfer Jewish children to children’s houses. She became the supervisor and lovingly cared for the children. In 1947 she immigrated to Isreal. Due to never being treated in Hungary, her arthritis turned into heart disease. She died on the operating table in 1966.
David Gur was born in 1926 in Hungary. After he became enrolled in college, he joined the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist (Jewish Protection)movement in Budapest. When the Nazis occupied Hungary Zionist youth movements decided to go underground. They had to change their identities so they could get things done, which meant that they needed forged documents.David Gur joined an underground workshop team forging documents. Eventually he took chief authority for the operation of the workshop. This workshop provided
forged documents to the Jewish public, and many non-
jewish resistance groups. The underground document forgers helped move Jews with fake papers to Romania so they could go to Palestine through the Black Sea. David Gur was arrested in late December 1944 and the contents of the workshop were confiscated. He was taken to the military prison in Budapest, where his fellow forgers eventually helped him to escape.
David Gur Today
Source: yadvashem.org