11. Helping Other Resistance Movements After the War
After the war, Kaminsky worked as a professional photographer. He also continued his clandestine work as a master forger, and lent his talents to disadvantaged peoples and liberation causes around the world. He created documents for thousands of freedom fighters, such as the Algerian FLN, refugees, exiles, and pacifists.
As the Jerusalem Post summed his career: “He grew to be a humanist forger, a utopian outlaw, the Robin Hood of false papers, preparing passports and identity cards for the world’s oppressed.” He continued forging until 1971, before moving to Algeria. He lived there for ten years, married a Tuareg woman, and had five children with her, including a well-known French hip-hop artist known as Roce. Adolfo Kaminsky passed away in 2023, aged 97.
