PRAGUE (AP) — Adolf Burger, a Jewish typographer who was forced by the Nazis to make fake British pounds in a major counterfeit operation during World War II, has died. He was 99.

Public broadcaster Czech Radio, citing Burger's family, reported Thursday that the Holocaust survivor died on Tuesday in Prague.

The Slovakian-born Burger was arrested in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz with his wife, Gisela, who was put to death there.

At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, he became one of some 140 inmates who were put to work forging British pound notes, a plan to destabilize Britain known as "Operation Bernhard."

Burger described his experience in "The Commando of Counterfeiters," a 1983 memoir. A movie based on the book, "The Counterfeiters," won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.