Quinn Redeker, actor.
He did a fair number of cop and PI shows, among other credits, including “The Rockford Files”, “Harry O”…
…and “Mannix”. (“Falling Star“, season 1, episode 15. He was “Jim Dancy”.)
Mike Hill, film editor. He won an Oscar for “Apollo 13”.
Diamond Lynnette Hardaway, of “Diamond and Silk”.
Timothy Vanderweert. He ran the “Leicaphilia” blog, which has been on the sidebar for a while now.
Adolfo Kaminsky. I swear I have written something about him before, but I can’t find it now.
He was a forger. Specifically, he forged documents to get people out of the hands of the Nazis.
The forged documents allowed Jewish children, their parents and others to escape deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory for safe havens.
At one point, Mr. Kaminsky was asked to produce 900 birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children in institutional homes who were about to be rounded up. The aim was to deceive the Germans until the children could be smuggled out to rural families or convents, or to Switzerland and Spain. He was given three days to finish the assignment.
He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”
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Using the pseudonym Julien Keller, Mr. Kaminsky was a key operative in a Paris underground laboratory whose members — all working for no pay and risking a quick death if discovered — adopted aliases like Water Lily, Penguin and Otter, and often contrived documents from scratch.
Mr. Kaminsky learned to fashion various typefaces, a skill he had picked up in elementary school while editing a school newspaper, and was able to imitate those used by the authorities. He pressed paper so that it, too, resembled the kind used on official documents, and photoengraved his own rubber stamps, letterheads and watermarks.
Word of the cell spread to other resistance groups, and soon it was producing 500 documents a week, receiving orders from partisans in several European countries. Mr. Kaminsky estimated that the underground network he was part of helped save 10,000 people, most of them children.