Salomon Smolianoff | |
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| סלומון סמוליאנוב | |
 Portrait photograph of Salomon Smolianoff. | |
| Born | March 26th 1899 |
| Died | 1976 (aged 76–77) Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Resting place | Cemitério Israelita, Porto Alegre |
| Other names | Werner Mattheus, Lidral Hugo[2] |
| Citizenship | German,[1] Brazilian |
| Education | Art School |
| Occupation(s) | Forger Nazi prisoner counterfeiter |
| Known for | Operation Bernhard |
Salomon Smolianoff (March 1899 – 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.
- ^ a b Lawrence Malkin, http://www.lawrencemalkin.com/kruegers-men-the-secret-documents-7-1-1.html
- ^ Smolianoff Interpol Wanted Bulletin, http://www.lawrencemalkin.com/kruegers-men-the-secret-documents-7-1-1.html