Salomon Smolianoff
Salomon Smolianoff | |
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| סלומון סמוליאנוב | |
Portrait photograph of Salomon Smolianoff. | |
| Born | March 26th 1897 |
| Died | 1976 (aged 78–79) Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Resting place | Cemitério Israelita, Porto Alegre |
| Other names | Werner Mattheus, Lidral Hugo |
| Citizenship | German, Brazilian |
| Education | Art School |
| Occupation(s) | Forger Nazi prisoner counterfeiter |
| Known for | Operation Bernhard |
Salomon Smolianoff (March 26, 1897 – November 14, 1976) was a Jewish counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. In the 2007 film The Counterfeiters based on Adolf Burger's memoirs (which film received a foreign-language Oscar for Austria in 2008), the character is renamed Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch. The character is played by Karl Markovics, an Austrian stage and television actor.