The Good Forger (Adolfo Kaminsky)

I’m glad he lived to 97. HN covered his biography a few years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12621548

One detail I’ve not seen in biographies, but is on Wikipedia, is that his mother was apprehended and killed by the Nazis in 1941. Comments in the above HN post speculate about his reasons for joining the French Resistance.