Salomon Smolianoff

Salomon Smolianoff (March 1899 – 1976) was a Russian counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. In the 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 "Salli" Sorowitsch. The character is played by Karl Markovics, an Austrian stage and television actor.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Werner Mattheus Lidral Hugo
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1899
Birth place
Russia , Kremenchuk
Ethnicity
Ashkenazi Jews
Citizenship
Brazil
Germans
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1976
Place of death
Brazil , Porto Alegre
Resting place
Porto Alegre
Known for
Operation Bernhard

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