“I wanted less and less to Israel. The pain and disappointment in the country, which I imagined the one for everyone and fair, prevented them from moving on. "

Publishing House "Scribes" releases the novel-biography of Sarah Kaminski "Adolfo Kaminsky, falsifier." The protagonist of the book was engaged in the fake of documents for most of his life. When the Second World War began, he, miraculously avoiding deportation, entered underground and, risking his life, masterfully made false papers to save the Jews. And after liberation, he helped the survivors to move from Europe to Palestine.

His daughter Sarah wrote down his first person story. With the kind permission of the publisher, we publish a fragment of the book (with reductions).

- Who exactly did you work for ?

- On the underground network"Aliya Beth" , which was engaged in the sending of Jews from the camps for displaced persons to Palestine. People who formed resistance in Nice have now become the activists of the Hagan , its agents in France. They expected miracles from me, demanded the impossible, did not reckon with the fact that I am alone and my forces were not unlimited.

Inside the organization, fundamental discrepancies occurred in views and political beliefs, but in case of need we all united and successfully overcome ideological disagreements in order to achieve a common goal. However, the nearby circle completely shared my pre -war, “Russian” ideals: Marxism, collectivism, agricultural communes - kibbuts. Each of us helped illegal immigrants, but the reasons for that were different. Everyone has their own.

Monsieur Paul ( Abraham Polonsky ) and his environment created a Jewish sovereign state, embodied the dream of all Zionists since the Balfur declaration . And some believed that they were transporting survivors to Palestine, since they are still true to resistance. The oath of the Jewish army is true. Most and itself willingly moved there as soon as the political situation in the world has changed.

I was worried about freedom, the right of each people to self -determination, the right of each person to move on the earth.

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