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Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-young-jewish-man-with-a-talent-for-forgery-hid-in-plain-sight-in-wwii-berlin/

A Jewish Man in WWII Berlin Forged Documents that Saved Hundreds of Lives

(Times of Israel) Renee Ghert-Zand - The new German-language film "The Forger" recounts the story of Cioma Schonhaus, whose parents and grandmother were deported to death camps, but stayed behind in Berlin to work in an armament factory. He later took off his yellow star and assumed the more Germanic name Peter Schonhausen. He joined the underground and used his graphic skills to forge passports that enabled hundreds of Jews to flee the country. When the Gestapo closed in, he forged a German Wehrmacht soldier's identity card and holiday pass for himself and fled on a bicycle to Switzerland, where he lived for the rest of his life until he died in 2015 at age 93.

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