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"My survival is the result of events in which the 'law of large numbers' played the major part."

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This reading is inspired by The Book of Lost Names that piqued my interest in the people who forged documents in WWII. Shout out to @Offmybookshelf for finding this book and passing it on to me â�¤ï¸�

This was a very interesting story of a Jewish passport forger in Nazi Berlin. It is well written, so well that sometimes the funny and eventful story covered the terror of being captured. I‘m torn between this is a good thing and the necessary seriousness is missing.

Some tougher reading after Christmas. It is written in a flowing style so far.

I saw The Invisibles at the SF Jewish Film Festival. It's a doc-narrative about Jews in Germany hiding in plain sight. While this story takes place in Germany, there were Jews that hid in plain sight in other countries as well, including my Dad and his parents, who hid in the open as Roman Catholics in Warsaw.
One of the storylines is about Cioma Schönhaus who wrote about his experiences in the phenomenal book, The Forger.