Adolf Burger

Adolf Burger
Burger in Paris, 2008
Born(1917-08-12)12 August 1917
Died6 December 2016(2016-12-06) (aged 99)
Prague, Czech Republic
NationalitySlovak (ethnic)[1][2]
Czech Republic (citizen)[1]
Educationtypography apprenticeship
Occupation(s)typographer
Nazi prisoner counterfeiter
printing plant director
Known formemoirs on Operation Bernhard
Political partyCommunist Party
Spouse(s)Gizela (born 1920, died 1942)
Anna (died c. 2004)
Children3

Adolf Burger (12 August 1917 – 6 December 2016) was a Slovak Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[3]

  1. ^ a b Adolf Burger identified himself as Slovak in an interview for the newspaper Sme, 28 Feb. 2008; he said he felt to be "neither a Czech, nor a Slovak, nor a Jew" in an interview for the newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes, 23 Feb. 2008.
  2. ^ After her interview with Adolf Burger, Pauline McLeod characterized him as a "proud Jewish Slovak" in "My Hell as a Forger for the SS." The Sunday Express, 7 Oct. 2007.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference wpobit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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