Adolfo Kaminsky, a life of forgery

Adolfo Kaminsky, a life of forgery
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A conference of the actress and writer Sarah Kaminsky, given in Paris in TEDx January 2010.

This conference has been given to Paris January 30, 2010, through conferences TedX Paris.

Sarah Kaminsky was born in 1979 in Sidi M'hamed in Algeria and lived in France since the age of 3 years Today, she divides her time between her profession actress and screenwriting. It tells first book in the extraordinary story of his father, Adolfo Kaminsky.
"Stay awake. As long as possible. Fighting cons sleep. The calculation is simple. Within an hour, I make thirty false papers. If I sleep one hour, thirty people die ... "When, at age 17, becomes Adolfo Kaminsky expert in forged documents of the Resistance in Paris, he unclear it is caught in a vicious circle, in a Race against time, against death, where every minute has value of life. For thirty years, it will execute this meticulous forgery for many reasons, but never for its own sake. Through its destiny romantic, and the pen of his daughter Sarah, is immersed inside a history of hiding, commitment, and Tracking fear. In the background of the story of his life draws the spectrum of a century when competing powers without thank you political, racial hatred, ideologies and struggles of peoples for freedom and human dignity. The Resistance, emigration illegal survivors camps prior to the creation of Israel, support for the FLN, revolutionary struggles in South America, the wars of decolonization in Africa, opposition to dictators of Spain, Portugal and Greece are all fighting for which he was com-mitted, risking his life and the price of many sacrifices. If he joins the causes apparently contradictory, Adolfo Kaminsky has always been true to his humanistic convictions, his desire to build a world of justice and freedom.