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Adolfo Kaminsky, The Forger | 60 Minutes Archive

By creating fake documents, an 18-year-old Adolfo Kaminsky helped the French resistance save as many as 14,000 Jews during WWII. Anderson Cooper met 92-year-old Kaminsky in 2017, and reported on how he used his stain-removing skills to forge official documents. Kaminsky died in January 2023.
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