In one of his most remarkable feats, the Jewish Parisien managed to save 300 children in an orphanage by providing them with 900 fake documents within three days
Working both as an apprentice clothes dyer and assistant to a chemist to earn money in his hometown in Normandy, Kaminsky had learned how to remove stains and dissolve blue ink. This seemingly unremarkable skill became invaluable when it turned out that the authorities used that kind of ink in the identity documents and ration cards that people were forced to carry after the Germans set up their puppet French Vichy regime in 1940.
The 18-year-old changed the names on them to sound non-Jewish, which would give their holders a chance to escape the French police that collaborated with their Nazi overlords in hunting down Jews.
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