TEDxParis 2010
Sarah Kaminsky: My father the forger
Sarah Kaminsky: Ayah saya, sang pemalsu
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Sarah Kaminsky menceritakan kisah luar biasa dari ayahnya Adolfo dan kegiatannya selama Perang Dunia ke-2 -- menggunakan ketrampilan dan bakatnya memalsukan dokumen untuk menyelamatkan orang. Presentasi dari TEDxParis ini disampaikan dalam Bahasa Perancis dengan teks standar Bahasa Inggris.
Sarah Kaminsky - Actor and writer
Sarah Kaminsky writes about her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger with a mission. Full bio
Sarah Kaminsky writes about her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger with a mission. Full bio
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I am the daughter of a forger,
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Saya adalah putri seorang pemalsu,
00:19
not just any forger ...
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bukan pemalsu biasa ...
00:21
When you hear the word "forger," you often understand "mercenary."
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Saat mendengar kata "pemalsu," Anda sering menganggapnya "mata duitan."
00:24
You understand "forged currency," "forged pictures."
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Seperti "uang palsu," "lukisan palsu."
00:28
My father is no such man.
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Ayah saya bukan orang seperti itu.
00:30
For 30 years of his life,
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Selama 30 tahun hidupnya,
00:31
he made false papers --
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ayah membuat dokumen palsu --
00:34
never for himself, always for other people,
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bukan untuk dirinya sendiri, namun untuk orang lain
00:36
and to come to the aid of the persecuted and the oppressed.
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untuk membantu orang yang teraniaya dan tertindas.
00:40
Let me introduce him.
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Mari saya perkenalkan beliau.
00:42
Here is my father at age 19.
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Inilah ayah saya pada usia 19 tahun.
00:45
It all began for him during World War II,
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Semua bermula saat Perang Dunia ke-2,
00:49
when at age 17 he found himself thrust
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saat pada usia 17 tahun ayah mengikuti
00:51
into a forged documents workshop.
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latihan pembuatan dokumen palsu.
00:53
He quickly became the false papers expert of the Resistance.
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Dia dengan cepat menjadi ahli pemalsu dokumen kelompok Perlawanan.
00:57
And it's not a banal story --
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Dan ini bukan kisah biasa --
00:59
after the liberation he continued
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setelah kemerdekaan ayah terus
01:02
to make false papers until the '70s.
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membuat dokumen palsu sampai tahun 70-an.
01:05
When I was a child
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Saat saya masih anak-anak,
01:07
I knew nothing about this, of course.
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saya tidak tahu apa-apa tentang hal ini.
01:09
This is me in the middle making faces.
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Itu saya di tengah sedang meledek.
01:11
I grew up in the Paris suburbs
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Saya tumbuh di pinggiran kota Paris
01:14
and I was the youngest of three children.
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dan saya adalah anak bungsu dari tiga bersaudara.
01:18
I had a "normal" dad like everybody else,
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Saya memiliki ayah yang "normal" seperti yang lain,
01:20
apart from the fact that he was 30 years older than ...
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kecuali bahwa ayah 30 tahun lebih tua daripada ...
01:22
well, he was basically old enough to be my grandfather.
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usia ayah cukup tua untuk menjadi kakek saya.
01:26
Anyway, he was a photographer and a street educator,
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Ayah seorang fotografer dan pendidik jalanan,
01:29
and he always taught us to obey the law very strictly.
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ayah selalu mendidik kami untuk mematuhi peraturan dengan ketat.
01:33
And, of course, he never talked about his past life
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Dan sudah pasti, dia tidak pernah membicarakan masa lalunya
01:35
when he was a forger.
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saat dia menjadi seorang pemalsu.
01:37
There was, however, an incident I'm going to tell you about,
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Namun, ada peristiwa yang akan saya ceritakan,
01:40
that perhaps could have led me suspect something.
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yang mungkin membuat saya curiga ada sesuatu.
01:43
I was in high school and got a bad grade,
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Saat di sekolah menengah saya mendapat nilai yang buruk,
01:46
a rare event for me,
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jarang terjadi pada saya,
01:48
so I decided to hide it from my parents.
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jadi saya menyembunyikannya dari orang tua saya.
01:51
In order to do that, I set out to forge their signature.
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Untuk melakukannya, saya memalsukan tanda tangan mereka.
01:54
I started working on my mother's signature,
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Saya mulai mencoba meniru tanda tangan ibu,
01:58
because my father's is absolutely impossible to forge.
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karena tanda tangan ayah sangat sulit untuk dipalsukan.
02:00
So, I got working. I took some sheets of paper
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Lalu, saya mulai mencoba, mengambil beberapa lembar kertas
02:03
and started practicing, practicing, practicing,
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dan mulai berlatih, berlatih, dan berlatih,
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until I reached what I thought was a steady hand,
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sampai saya merasa cukup mantap,
02:08
and went into action.
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dan mulai beraksi.
02:10
Later, while checking my school bag,
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Kemudian, saat memeriksa tas sekolah saya,
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my mother got hold of my school assignment and immediately saw that the signature was forged.
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ibu mendapatl tugas sekolah saya dan langsung melihat tanda tangan palsu itu.
02:16
She yelled at me like she never had before.
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Belum pernah ibu memarahi saya sampai seperti itu.
02:18
I went to hide in my bedroom, under the blankets,
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Saya pergi bersembunyi di kamar, di bawah selimut,
02:21
and then I waited for my father to come back from work
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dan menunggu ayah pulang bekerja
02:24
with, one could say, much apprehension.
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dengan, mungkin dapat dikatakan, sangat ketakutan.
02:26
I heard him come in.
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Saya mendengar suara ayah masuk.
02:28
I remained under the blankets. He entered my room,
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Saya tetap di bawah selimut. Dia masuk ke kamar saya
02:31
sat on the corner of the bed,
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duduk di samping tempat tidur,
02:33
and he was silent, so I pulled the blanket from my head,
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tidak ada suara, saya menarik selimut yang menutupi wajah saya,
02:36
and when he saw me he started laughing.
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dan saat melihat saya, ayah tertawa.
02:39
He was laughing so hard, he could not stop and he was holding my assignment in his hand.
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Ayah tertawa begitu keras tanpa henti dan dia memegang tugas saya itu di tangannya.
02:42
Then he said, "But really, Sarah, you could have worked harder! Can't you see it's really too small?"
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Lalu dia berkata, "Sarah, kau harus berusaha lebih keras lagi! Kau tidak lihat kalau ini terlalu kecil?"
02:47
Indeed, it's rather small.
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Memang, itu terlalu kecil.
02:52
I was born in Algeria.
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Saya lahir di Aljazair.
02:54
There I would hear people say my father was a "moudjahid"
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Di sana saya mendengar orang-orang berkata ayah saya seorang "mujahidin"
02:58
and that means "fighter."
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yang berarti "pejuang."
02:59
Later on, in France, I loved eavesdropping on grownups' conversations,
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Kemudian, di Perancis saya suka mencuri dengar percakapan orang dewasa,
03:03
and I would hear all sorts of stories about my father's previous life,
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saya mendengar berbagai kisah tentang kehidupan ayah saya di masa lalu,
03:06
especially that he had "done" World War II,
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terutama apa yang "dilakukan" ayah dalam Perang Dunia ke-2
03:09
that he had "done" the Algerian war.
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yang "dilakukan" ayah dalam Perang Aljazair.
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And in my head I would be thinking that "doing" a war meant being a soldier.
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Dan dalam kepala saya yang "dilakukan" dalam perang adalah menjadi prajurit.
03:14
But knowing my father, and how he kept saying that he was a pacifist and non-violent,
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Namun saya kenal ayah saya, dan ayah selalu berkata bahwa dia cinta damai dan benci kekerasan.
03:18
I found it very hard to picture him with a helmet and gun.
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Sangat sulit untuk membayangkan ayah dengan helm dan senapan.
03:21
And indeed, I was very far from the mark.
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Dan memang, saya jauh meleset.
03:23
One day, while my father was working on a file
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Suatu hari, saat ayah sedang mengerjakan surat
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for us to obtain French nationality,
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bagi kami untuk mendapat kewarganegaraan Perancis,
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I happened to see some documents
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tidak sengaja saya melihat beberapa dokumen
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that caught my attention.
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yang menarik perhatian saya.
03:34
These are real!
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Ini sungguhan!
03:36
These are mine, I was born an Argentinean.
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Ini milik saya. Saya lahir sebagai orang Argentina.
03:39
But the document I happened to see
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Namun dokumen yang saya lihat
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that would help us build a case for the authorities
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yang akan membantu kami menghadapi pihak berwenang
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was a document from the army
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adalah sebuah dokumen dari angkatan bersenjata
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that thanked my father for his work
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yang berterima kasih kepada ayah saya
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on behalf of the secret services.
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atas nama agen rahasia.
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And then, suddenly, I went "wow!"
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Kemudian, tiba-tiba saya berkata "wow!"
03:53
My father, a secret agent?
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Apakah ayah seorang agen rahasia?
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It was very James Bond.
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Benar-benar seperti James Bond.
03:57
I wanted to ask him questions, which he didn't answer.
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Saya ingin bertanya, yang kemudian tidak dijawab oleh ayah.
04:02
And later, I told myself that
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Kemudian, saya meyakinkan diri sendiri
04:05
one day I would have to question him.
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bahwa suatu hari nanti saya akan bertanya.
04:07
And then I became a mother and had a son,
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Lalu saya menjadi ibu dengan seorang putra,
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and finally decided it was time -- that he absolutely had to talk to us.
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dan akhirnya saya memutuskan sudah waktunya -- ayah harus mengatakannya.
04:13
I had become a mother
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Saya sudah menjadi ibu
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and he was celebrating his 77th birthday,
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dan ayah akan berulang tahun ke-77,
04:17
and suddenly I was very, very afraid.
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dan tiba-tiba saya sangat khawatir.
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I feared he'd go
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Saya takut ayah akan pergi
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and take his silences with him,
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dan membawa kebungkamannya,
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and take his secrets with him.
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membawa rahasianya.
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I managed to convince him that it was important for us,
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Saya berhasil meyakinkan ayah bahwa hal ini penting bagi kami,
04:28
but possibly also for other people
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dan mungkin juga bagi orang lain
04:29
that he shared his story.
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untuk menceritakan kisahnya.
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He decided to tell it to me
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Ayah memutuskan untuk mengatakannya
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and I made a book,
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dan saya menulis sebuah buku
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from which I'm going to read you some excerpts later.
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yang beberapa kutipannya akan saya bacakan.
04:37
So, his story. My father was born in Argentina.
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Lalu, kisahnya. Ayah saya lahir di Argentina.
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His parents were of Russian descent.
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Orang tuanya keturunan Rusia.
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The whole family came to settle in France in the '30s.
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Seluruh keluarganya datang untuk menetap di Perancis pada tahun 30-an.
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His parents were Jewish, Russian and above all, very poor.
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Orang tuanya adalah orang Yahudi, Rusia, dan sangat miskin.
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So at the age of 14 my father had to work.
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Di usia 14 tahun ayah harus bekerja.
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And with his only diploma,
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Dan dengan ijazah satu-satunya,
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his primary education certificate,
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ijazah sekolah dasarnya,
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he found himself working at a dyer - dry cleaner.
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ayah mendapat pekerjaan di binatu -- sebagai tukang celup.
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That's where he discovered something totally magical,
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Di sana ayah menemukan sesuatu yang sangat ajaib,
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and when he talks about it, it's fascinating --
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dan saat ayah menceritakannya, benar-benar luar biasa --
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it's the magic of dyeing chemistry.
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yaitu keajaiban pewarna kimia.
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During that time the war was happening
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Saat itu perang sedang berkobar
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and his mother was killed when he was 15.
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dan ibunya terbunuh saat dia berusia 15 tahun.
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This coincided with the time when
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Ini bersamaan dengan saat
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he threw himself body and soul into chemistry
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ayah membenamkan jiwa dan raganya pada bahan kimia
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because it was the only consolation for his sadness.
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karena itulah satu-satunya penghibur kesedihannya.
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All day he would ask many questions to his boss
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Ayah mengajukan banyak pertanyaan kepada bosnya
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to learn, to accumulate more and more knowledge,
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untuk belajar, mengumpulkan pengetahuan,
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and at night, when no one was looking,
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dan di malam hari, saat tidak ada yang melihat
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he'd put his experience to practice.
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ayah menggunakan pengalamannya untuk berlatih.
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He was mostly interested in ink bleaching.
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Ayah paling tertarik pada tinta pemutih.
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All this to tell you
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Ini hanya untuk memberi tahu
05:35
that if my father became a forger, actually,
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ayah saya menjadi pemalsu, sebenarnya,
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it was almost by accident.
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hampir tidak disengaja.
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His family was Jewish, so they were hounded.
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Keluarganya adalah orang Yahudi, sehingga mereka diburu.
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Finally they were all arrested and taken to the Drancy camp
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Akhirnya, mereka ditangkap dan dibawa ke barak Drancy
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and they managed to get out at the last minute thanks to their Argentinean papers.
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dan mereka berhasil keluar di saat-saat terakhir berkat dokumen Argentina itu.
05:49
Well, they were out,
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Mereka berhasil lolos,
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but they were always in danger. The big "Jew" stamp was still on their papers.
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namun mereka selalu berada dalam bahaya. Cap "Yahudi" masih ada dalam dokumen mereka.
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It was my grandfather who decided they needed false documents.
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Kakek sayalah yang berkata bahwa mereka perlu dokumen palsu.
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My father had been instilled with such respect for the law
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Ayah masih benar-benar menghormati hukum
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that although he was being persecuted,
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sehingga walaupun ayah dianiaya,
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he'd never thought of false papers.
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ayah tidak pernah berpikir tentang dokumen palsu.
06:03
But it was he who went to meet a man from the Resistance.
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Namun ayahlah yang pergi untuk bertemu pria dari pihak Perlawanan.
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In those times documents had hard covers,
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Saat itu dokumen dibuat di atas kertas,
06:09
they were filled in by hand,
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ditulis tangan,
06:10
and they stated your job.
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dan mencantumkan pekerjaan Anda.
06:13
In order to survive, he needed
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Agar dapat selamat, ayah harus
06:16
to be working. He asked the man
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memiliki pekerjaan. Dia meminta pria itu
06:18
to write "dyer."
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untuk menulis "tukang celup."
06:19
Suddenly the man looked very, very interested.
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Tiba-tiba pria itu terlihat sangat tertarik.
06:22
As a "dyer," do you know how to bleach ink marks?
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Sebagai seorang "tukang celup," apa Anda tahu bagaimana menghapus tinta?
06:26
Of course he knew.
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Tentu saja ayah tahu.
06:28
And suddenly the man started explaining that
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Dan tiba-tiba pria itu mulai menjelaskan bahwa
06:30
actually the whole Resistance had a huge problem:
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sebenarnya pihak Perlawanan menghadapi masalah besar,
06:32
even the top experts
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bahkan para ahli kelas atas
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could not manage to bleach an ink, called "indelible,"
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tidak dapat menghapus tinta yang disebut "tak terhapuskan,"
06:39
the "Waterman" blue ink.
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tinta biru "Waterman."
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And my father immediately replied that he knew exactly
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Dan ayah langsung menjawab bahwa dia tahu
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how to bleach it.
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bagaimana menghapusnya.
06:46
Now, of course, the man was very impressed with this young man of 17
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Tentu saja, pria itu sangat terkesan dengan anak muda berusia 17 tahun
06:49
who could immediately give him the formula, so he recruited him.
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yang dapat memberikan resep kepadanya, jadi dia pun merekrut ayah.
06:53
And actually, without knowing it, my father had invented something
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Dan sebenarnya, tanpa disadarinya, ayah telah menemukan sesuatu
06:56
we can find in every schoolchild's pencil case:
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yang dapat ditemukan di setiap tempat pensil anak sekolah:
06:59
the so-called "correction pen."
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yang disebut "tip-ex."
07:02
(Applause)
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(Tepuk tangan)
07:07
But it was only the beginning.
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Namun itu baru permulaannya.
07:09
That's my father.
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Itulah ayah saya.
07:10
As soon as he got to the lab,
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Segera setelah ayah masuk ke lab,
07:12
even though he was the youngest,
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meskipun ayah adalah yang paling muda,
07:13
he immediately saw that there was a problem with the making of forged documents.
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ayah langsung melihat bahwa ada masalah dengan pembuatan dokumen palsu.
07:16
All the movements stopped at falsifying.
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Semuanya berhenti pada pemalsuan.
07:19
But demand was ever-growing
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Namun permintaan terus tumbuh
07:22
and it was difficult to tamper with existing documents.
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dan sulit untuk menutupi dokumen yang ada.
07:24
He told himself it was necessary to make them from scratch.
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Ayah berkata bahwa dia harus membuatnya dari nol.
07:26
He started a press. He started photoengraving.
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Ayah mendirikan percetakan, penggrafiran.
07:29
He started making rubber stamps.
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Ayah mulai membuat stempel karet.
07:30
He started inventing all kind of things --
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Ayah mulai menemukan berbagai benda --
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with some materials he invented a centrifuge using a bicycle wheel.
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dengan beberapa barang ayah membuat sentrifuse dari ban sepeda.
07:35
Anyway, he had to do all this
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Bagaimanapun, ayah harus melakukan semuanya
07:37
because he was completely obsessed with output.
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karena ayah sangat terobsesi dengan hasilnya.
07:40
He had made a simple calculation:
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Ayah membuat perhitungan sederhana:
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In one hour he could make 30 forged documents.
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Dalam satu jam ayah bisa membuat 30 dokumen palsu.
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If he slept one hour, 30 people would die.
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Jika ayah tidur 1 jam, maka 30 orang akan mati.
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This sense of
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responsibility for other people's lives when he was just 17 --
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akan hidup orang lain saat berusia 17 tahun --
07:56
and also his guilt for being a survivor,
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dan rasa bersalah karena dapat selamat,
07:59
since he had escaped the camp when his friends had not --
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karena ayah berhasil melarikan diri dan teman-temannya tidak bisa --
08:03
stayed with him all his life.
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menetap bersama ayah seumur hidupnya.
08:05
And this is maybe what explains why, for 30 years,
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Dan mungkin inilah sebabnya, mengapa selama 30 tahun,
08:08
he continued to make false papers
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ayah terus membuat dokumen palsu
08:11
at the expense of all kinds of sacrifices.
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dengan mengorbankan banyak hal.
08:13
I'd like to talk about those sacrifices,
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Saya ingin berbicara tentang pengorbanan itu
08:14
because there were many.
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karena ada banyak sekali.
08:16
There were obviously financial sacrifices
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Sudah pasti ada pengorbanan uang
08:18
because he always refused to be paid.
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karena ayah selalu menolak menerima bayaran.
08:20
To him, being paid would have meant being a mercenary.
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Baginya, dibayar berarti hanya bekerja untuk uang.
08:23
If he had accepted payment,
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Jika ayah menerima bayaran,
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he wouldn't be able to say "yes" or "no"
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ayah tidak dapat mengatakan "ya" atau "tidak"
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depending on what he deemed a just or unjust cause.
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tergantung pada apa yang dirasa pantas atau tidak pantas.
08:28
So he was a photographer by day,
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Jadi ayah adalah fotografer di siang hari
08:30
and a forger by night for 30 years.
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dan pemalsu dokumen di malam hari selama 30 tahun.
08:32
He was broke all of the time.
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Ayah selalu tidak mempunyai uang.
08:34
Then there were the emotional sacrifices:
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Lalu ada pengorbanan emosional:
08:37
How can one live with a woman while having so many secrets?
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Bagaimana mungkin orang tinggal bersama seorang wanita tapi punya banyak rahasia?
08:40
How can one explain what one does at night in the lab, every single night?
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Bagaimana ayah menjelaskan apa yang dilakukannya di dalam lab setiap malam?
08:44
Of course, there was another kind of sacrifice
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Sudah pasti, ada pengorbanan lainnya
08:47
involving his family that I understood much later.
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yang melibatkan keluarganya yang saya pahami kemudian.
08:51
One day my father introduced me to my sister.
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Suatu hari ayah mengenalkan saudara perempuan saya.
08:54
He also explained to me that I had a brother, too,
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Ayah berkata bahwa saya juga memiliki saudara laki-laki.
08:58
and the first time I saw them I must have been three or four,
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dan pertama kali saya melihatnya, saya berusia 3 atau 4 tahun
09:04
and they were 30 years older than me.
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dan mereka 30 tahun lebih tua dari saya.
09:06
They are both in their sixties now.
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Mereka semua berusia 60-an tahun sekarang.
09:11
In order to write the book,
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Untuk menulis buku ini,
09:14
I asked my sister questions. I wanted to know who my father was,
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saya menanyai saudara perempuan saya, saya ingin tahu siapa ayah saya,
09:17
who was the father she had known.
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siapakah ayah yang dia kenal.
09:19
She explained that the father that she'd had
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Dia mengatakan bahwa ayah yang dia miliki
09:23
would tell them he'd come and pick them up on Sunday to go for a walk.
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akan berkata dia akan datang menjemput mereka pada hari Minggu untuk berjalan-jalan.
09:27
They would get all dressed up and wait for him,
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Mereka akan berdandan dan menunggunya,
09:30
but he would almost never come.
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namun dia hampir tidak pernah datang.
09:32
He'd say, "I'll call." He wouldn't call.
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Dia berkata, "Ayah akan menelepon." Dan tidak ada telepon.
09:35
And then he would not come.
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Dan dia tidak datang.
09:37
Then one day he totally disappeared.
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Lalu suatu hari dia menghilang.
09:40
Time passed,
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Waktu terus berlalu,
09:42
and they thought he had surely forgotten them,
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dan mereka mengira dia sudah benar-benar melupakannya,
09:45
at first.
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pada awalnya.
09:46
Then as time passed,
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Lalu saat waktu berlalu
09:48
at the end of almost two years, they thought,
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setelah hampir 2 tahun, mereka berpikir
09:50
"Well, perhaps our father has died."
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"Mungkin ayah kita sudah meninggal."
09:53
And then I understood
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Lalu saya menyadari
09:55
that asking my father so many questions
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bahwa bertanya begitu banyak pertanyaan kepada ayah
09:58
was stirring up a whole past he probably didn't feel like talking about
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memicu masa lalu yang mungkin tidak ingin dibicarakannya
10:01
because it was painful.
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karena hal itu menyakitkan.
10:03
And while my half brother and sister thought they'd been abandoned,
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Dan di saat saudara tiri saya berpikir mereka telah dibuang,
10:07
orphaned,
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menjadi yatim,
10:09
my father was making false papers.
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ayah saya membuat dokumen palsu.
10:11
And if he did not tell them, it was of course to protect them.
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Dan jika ayah tidak mengatakannya, tentu saja itu untuk melindungi mereka.
10:15
After the liberation he made false papers
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Setelah kemerdekaan ayah membuat dokumen palsu
10:17
to allow the survivors of concentration camps to immigrate to Palestine
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agar orang yang selamat dari barak-barak dapat masuk ke Palestina
10:20
before the creation of Israel.
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sebelum pembentukan Israel.
10:22
And then, as he was a staunch anti-colonialist,
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Lalu, karena ayah seorang anti kolonial yang teguh,
10:24
he made false papers for Algerians during the Algerian war.
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ayah membuat dokumen palsu untuk orang Aljazair selama Perang Aljazair.
10:27
After the Algerian war,
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Setelah Perang Aljazair,
10:30
at the heart of the international resistance movements,
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di tengah gerakan perlawanan internasional,
10:33
his name circulated
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namanya beredar
10:34
and the whole world came knocking at his door.
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dan seluruh dunia akan datang mengetuk pintunya.
10:37
In Africa there were countries fighting for their independence:
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Di Afrika, ada banyak negara yang berperang untuk kemerdekaan:
10:40
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Angola.
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Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Angola.
10:43
And then my father connected with Nelson Mandela's anti-apartheid party.
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Lalu ayah terlibat dalam partai anti-apartheid Nelson Mandela.
10:48
He made false papers for persecuted black South Africans.
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Ayah membuat dokumen palsu untuk orang Afrika Selatan kulit hitam yang teraniaya.
10:51
There was also Latin America.
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Juga di Amerika Latin.
10:53
My father helped those who resisted dictatorships
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Ayah menolong mereka yang menolak pemerintahan diktator
10:56
in the Dominican Republic, Haiti,
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di Republik Dominika, Haiti,
10:58
and then it was the turn of Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
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dan kemudian giliran Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
11:04
Colombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico.
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Kolombia, Peru, Uruguay, Chili, dan Meksiko.
11:09
Then there was the Vietnam War.
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Lalu ada Perang Vietnam.
11:11
My father made false papers for the American deserters
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Ayah membuat dokumen palsu untuk para pembelot Amerika
11:13
who did not wish to take up arms against the Vietnamese.
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yang menolak mengangkat senjata melawan orang Vietnam.
11:16
Europe was not spared either.
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Eropa juga tidak luput.
11:18
My father made false papers for the dissidents
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Ayah membuat dokumen palsu untuk para penentang
11:21
against Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal,
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melawan Franco di Spanyol, Salazar di Portugal,
11:24
against the colonels' dictatorship in Greece,
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melawan kediktatoran kolonel di Yunani,
11:29
and even in France.
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dan bahkan di Prancis.
11:31
There, just once, it happened in May of 1968.
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Hanya sekali, itu terjadi pada bulan Mei 1968.
11:34
My father watched, benevolently, of course,
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Ayah saja melihat, tentu saja dengan niat baik,
11:37
the demonstrations of the month of May,
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demonstrasi di bulan Mei,
11:40
but his heart was elsewhere, and so was his time
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namun hatinya ada di tempat lain, dan itulah masanya
11:42
because he had over 15 countries to serve.
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karena ayah bekerja untuk lebih dari 15 negara.
11:45
Once, though, he agreed to make false papers
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Sekali lagi, ayah setuju untuk membuat dokumen palsu
11:48
for someone you might recognize.
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untuk seseorang yang mungkin Anda kenal.
11:50
(Laughter)
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(Tawa)
11:53
He was much younger in those days,
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Dia jauh lebih muda saat itu,
11:54
and my father agreed to make false papers
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dan ayah setuju untuk membuat dokumen palsu
11:56
to enable him to come back and speak at a meeting.
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agar dia bisa kembali dan berbicara dalam rapat.
11:59
He told me that those false papers were the most media-relevant
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Ayah mengatakan dokumen palsu itulah yang paling relevan dengan media
12:04
and the least useful he'd had to make in all his life.
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dan yang paling tidak berguna yang pernah dibuatnya.
12:08
But, he agreed to do it,
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Namun, ayah menyetujuinya
12:09
even though Daniel Cohn-Bendit's life was not in danger,
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walaupun hidup Daniel Cohn-Bendit tidak berada dalam bahaya,
12:13
just because
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hanya karena
12:15
it was a good opportunity
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itu adalah kesempatan bagus
12:16
to mock the authorities,
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untuk mengolok-olok pemerintah,
12:19
and to show them that there's nothing more porous than borders --
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dan menunjukkan bahwa tidak ada yang lebih keropos dari perbatasan --
12:22
and that ideas have no borders.
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dan ide tidak memiliki batas.
12:26
All my childhood,
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Pada masa kecil saya
12:28
while my friends' dads would tell them Grimm's fairy tales,
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saat ayah teman-teman saya bercerita tentang dongeng Grimm,
12:32
my father would tell me stories about very unassuming heroes
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ayah saya akan bercerita tentang pahlawan yang bersahaja
12:36
with unshakeable utopias
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dengan utopia yang tak tergoyahkan
12:39
who managed to make miracles.
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yang berhasil membuat keajaiban.
12:42
And those heroes did not need an army behind them.
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Dan para pahlawan itu tidak memerlukan tentara.
12:46
Anyhow, nobody would have followed them,
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Bagaimanapun, tidak akan ada yang mengikuti mereka,
12:49
except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.
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kecuali beberapa pria dan wanita yang percaya dan berani.
12:52
I understood much later
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Saya kemudian menyadari
12:53
that actually it was his own story my father would tell me to get me to sleep.
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bahwa sebenarnya ayah menceritakan kisahnya sendiri untuk menidurkan saya.
12:57
I asked him whether, considering the sacrifices he had to make,
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Saya bertanya kepada ayah, apakah dengan pengorbanan yang dibuatnya,
13:00
he ever had any regrets.
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ayah pernah menyesal.
13:02
He said no.
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Ayah berkata tidak.
13:03
He told me that he would have been unable
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Ayah memberi tahu bahwa dia tidak akan dapat
13:06
to witness or submit to injustice without doing anything.
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menyaksikan atau tunduk pada ketidakadilan tanpa melakukan apapun.
13:08
He was persuaded, and he's still convinced
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Ayah yakin, dan ayah masih percaya
13:12
that another world is possible --
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bahwa sebuah dunia lain itu mungkin --
13:14
a world where no one would ever need a forger.
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sebuah dunia di mana tidak seorangpun memerlukan pemalsu.
13:17
He's still dreaming about it.
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Ayah masih memimpikannya.
13:19
My father
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Ayah saya
13:20
is here in the room today.
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ada di ruangan ini sekarang.
13:22
His name is Adolfo Kaminsky and I'm going to ask him to stand up.
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Namanya adalah Adolfo Kaminsky dan saya ingin meminta ayah berdiri.
13:26
(Applause)
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(Tepuk tangan)
13:46
Thank you.
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Terima kasih.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sarah Kaminsky - Actor and writerSarah Kaminsky writes about her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, a forger with a mission.
Why you should listen
Born in 1979 in Algeria, of an Argentinean father with Russian origins, and a Tuareg Algerian mother, Sarah Kaminsky arrived in France when she was 3 years old. Passionate about art since her childhood, she started learning the cello at age 4. As a teenager, she discovered two passions, which are still vibrant in her life: theater and writing. Since then, she's shared her time between her acting career and writing screenplays, plays or books.
In 2009, Sarah wrote a book worthy of the best spy novels, based on the true story of her father, Adolfo Kaminsky, genius-forger who committed his know-how and convictions to serve the French Resistance during World War II, saving thousands of Jewish families, and many others over the course of 30 years for various causes around the world.
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