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Jewish Artist Forged Dutch ID Papers to Save 350 Jewish Children from Nazis
(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - During the years in which 102,000 Dutch Jews were murdered by the Nazis, a German-born Jewish artist, Alice Cohn, became an expert forger of identity papers and helped saved up to 350 Jewish children. Cohn's story is currently on display at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, based on items from the personal archive of Cohn, who died in 2000. Jacob Lentz, a Dutch official, created a so-called "fool-proof" personal identity card. During two years of hiding in an attic near Utrecht, Cohn crack Lentz's "hermetic" system, forging identity cards able to withstand scrutiny. Cohn and her group also forged ration coupons needed by "underground" people in hiding to obtain food, and documents to help young Dutch men evade forced labor in Germany.