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Adolf Burger

Adolf Burger

1917–2016

Nationality
Slovakia
Occupation
writer

Adolf Burger (12 August 1917 – 6 December 2016) was a Czech Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  2. Mauthausen concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  3. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown

Biography

Adolf Burger (12 August 1917 – 6 December 2016) was a Czech Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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  • Filip Müller
    1922–2013Slovakia

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  • Yehoshua Robert Büchler
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