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Adolfo Kaminsky, Beyond Borders

The LRB Podcast

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Adolfo Kaminsky's Early Life and Resistance Involvement

This chapter recounts the early life of Adolfo Kaminsky, a child of Russian Jewish parents who were forced to relocate multiple times due to political turmoil. It describes how his family obtained citizenship in Buenos Aires and eventually settled in a small town in Normandy. Despite facing increasing persecution as a Jew during the Nazi occupation of France, Kaminsky found solace in chemistry and became involved in the resistance movement, manufacturing dangerous items for sabotage operations.

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