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Moritz Nachtstern (1902–1969)

Autor(a) de Counterfeiter

2 Works 92 Membros 1 Review

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Obras por Moritz Nachtstern

Counterfeiter (1949) 91 exemplares
Falskmyntner i blokk 19 (1995) 1 exemplar

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Data de nascimento
1902-11-11
Data de falecimento
1969-12-11
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Poland (birth)
Norway (naturalized)
Local de nascimento
Warsaw, Poland
Local de falecimento
Oslo, Norway
Locais de residência
Oslo, Norway
Ocupações
typographer
Holocaust survivor
memoirist
Relações
Arntzen, Ragnar (editor)
Stenge, Margrit Rosenberg (translator)

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Moritz Nachtstern was born in Warsaw, Poland. His family moved to Norway in 1907, when he was a small child. The rest of the family later emigrated to the USA. In 1942, after Nazi Germany invaded Norway in World War II, Moritz was deported to Germany on the ship Danau. In 1943, he was sent to first to the Auschwitz death camp, then to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. There he and other graphic designers were commissioned by the Nazis to make counterfeit pound notes to be used to destroy the British economy. As Allied forces approached at the end of the war, the prisoners and the banknote press were moved to Mauthausen. Moritz survived to be liberated in May 1945. He went home to Norway and resumed his work as a typographer. He married Rachel Tomsinsky, with whom he had two children. Rachel assisted him with preparing his memoirs. The book was edited by journalist Ragnar Arntzen and originally published in Norway in 1949 as Falskmyntner i block 19. Danish and Swedish translations followed. An English language edition called Counterfeiter: How a Norwegian Jew Survived the Holocaust, appeared in 2008, with a foreword by Moritz's daughter Sidsel Nachtstern.

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Dette er en sterk beretning fra 2. verdenskrig. Må si jeg ble paff, hadde ikke tenkt tanken at narzistene forfalsket engelske/amrikanske mynter. Men de var noen .... så egentlig burde ikke blitt sjokkert. Lyspunktet i det hele er at noen overlevde pga. dette. Bør leses.
 
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kirstenlund | Mar 22, 2009 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
2
Membros
92
Popularidade
#202,476
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
1
ISBN
8
Línguas
2

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