NEW YORK - He survived the Holocaust carrying the solemn portraits he drew of concentration camp prisoners who labored alongside him in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history. For ...

The film turns to Adolf Burger's memoir The Devil's Workshop as its basis. Burger was a Slovakian Jew arrested in 1942 for forging birth certificates and documents. The reason for his arrest would ...

Burger was part of an elaborate Nazi plan titled Operation Bernhard that sought to disrupt Britain’s economy by introducing millions of fake bank notes. Adolf Burger, the last concentration camp ...

Even if you didn’t know that Stefan Ruzowitsky’s “The Counterfeiters” was a 2007 Oscar nominee for best foreign language film, you’d probably guess it was, anyway. This Austrian drama about the Nazis’ ...

Like “Schindler’s List,” “The Counterfeiters” relies on a true and fascinating chapter of Holocaust history to explore questions on the nature of heroism and the power of the human desire for survival ...

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Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pounds in a major counterfeiting operation during World War II, has died. He was 99. Public broadcaster Czech Radio, ...

NEW YORK -- He survived the Holocaust carrying the solemn portraits he drew of concentration camp prisoners who labored alongside him in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history. For ...

The Austrian picture The Counterfeiters, which won this year’s Academy Award for best foreign film, dramatizes yet another little-known story of the Holocaust. In “Operation Bernhard” the Nazis ...

For a film about the largest forgery operation in history, "The Counterfeiters" has collected some very real box office coin following its 2007 Oscar win for top foreign language pic. The ...