In “If I Sleep For an Hour, 30 People Will Die,” Pamela Druckerman tells the story of a man named Adolfo Kaminsky, who Druckerman calls “a hero of World War II,” and urges us to help other like he did. Kaminsky was a skilled forger who created passports from scratch for people on the verge of being arrested and sent to concentration camps. The group mainly worked with urgent cases: children being sent to Drancy, the internment camp for Jews. He hid the kids or smuggled them to Switzerland or Spain. It is estimated that Kaminsky could make thirty blank documents in an hour, but he dared not to sleep when he had work to do, thus his famous quote was born. France’s Jewish resistance saved 7,000-10,000 children, and Kaminksy forged for thirty more
