Enduring Strength in Times of Dire Need

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After the Nazis took Adolfo Kaminsky’s mother’s life in 1941, he became a part of the French resistance when he was 17.

Throughout World War 2, he spent most of his time creating fake passports in a hidden lab in Paris. It’s believed that he helped save around 14,000 French Jews.

“I’ll always remember our biggest request for documents. 300 children in 3 days. It wasn’t possible. I had to stay awake as long as possible. Fight against sleep. The math was simple. In one hour, I made 30 fake documents. If I slept for one hour, 30 people would die. My biggest fear was making a technical mistake, any little detail that might escape me. On every document rests the life or death of a human being. So I worked, worked, worked until I passed out. When I woke up, I kept working. We couldn’t stop.”

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