Lucien Steinberg

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Lucien Steinberg (born April 19, 1926 in Bucharest ; died March 3, 2008 in Paris ) was a French journalist and historian of the Shoah .

Life

Steinberg's father came from Jassy , had trained as a teacher in Paris and ran a French bookshop in Bucharest in the 1920s . Steinberg acquired his first knowledge of German from one of the family's nannies. In 1940 Steinberg had to leave the grammar school in Bucharest for racist reasons, he then attended a private school and was drafted into the Romanian labor service. As a youth he took part in anti-fascist activities against the Antoniescu regime , with three of his friends being discovered and sentenced to death. With his mother, who came from a Hungarian-Jewish rabbi family, and his sister, he emigrated to Palestine after the death of their father in September 1943 . In 1948 he went to Paris to study medicine, but there was more involved in organizing the Holocaust survivors who could not find a place as Displaced Persons in Europe and wanted to move to Palestine.

After studying political science, Steinberg worked as a freelance journalist, initially for the Reuters news agency . Steinberg was a member of the Parti communiste français . Isaac Schnersohn (1879–1969) was able to convince Steinberg to work at the Center de documentation juive contemporaine (CDJC), and he began there to evaluate a stock of rescued Gestapo files, for which he had to refresh his rudimentary knowledge of German. Steinberg organized exhibitions on the Shoah and wrote a number of monographs, little of which was translated. He was particularly interested in the Jewish resistance to National Socialism in Europe.

Known as a journalist, he was in 1972 through his interviews for the magazine Historia with the standartenführer and Commander of the Security Police (IMs) for the occupied France, Helmut bone , and the Frenchman René Bousquet , who as secretary general of the police of the Vichy regime of leader Place was involved in the deportation of the Jews in France . In Nuremberg he also interviewed the war criminal Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski . For ten years he was editor-in-chief of the newspaper La Presse nouvelle .

He and his wife Hélène had three children. He is buried on the Cimetière Montparnasse .

Fonts

  • After the catastrophe, reflections on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust 1970 - 2007 , Berlin Metropol 2011
  • "The scum of the earth": a contribution to the situation of German-speaking emigration in France at the beginning of the Second World War , Bad Godesberg: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1967
  • Chroniques d'un Juif laïque , 2010
  • with Myriam Foss: Vie et mort des juifs sous l'Occupation , éditions Plon, 1998. ISBN 978-2-259-00079-6
  • Les Allemands en France - 1940-1944 , éditions Albin Michel, 1992. ISBN 978-2-226-01006-3
  • Traque des juifs 1942–44 , éditions Vie ouvrière. ISBN 978-2-87003-210-7
  • Jews Against Hitler , Editions Gordon & Cremonesi, 1978. ISBN 978-0-86033-061-5
  • Not as a Lamb , édition Saxon Ho., 1974. ISBN 978-0-347-00003-1
  • Le Comité de défense des juifs en Belgique, 1942-1944 , éditions de l'université de Bruxelles, 1973
  • La révolte des justes. les juifs contre Hitler 1933–1945 , éditions Fayard, 1970
  • Center de documentation juive contemporaine: Les autorités allemandes en France occupée inventaire commenté de la collection de documents conservés au CDJC provenant des archives de l'ambassade d'Allemagne, de l'administration militaire allemande et de la Gestapo en France , 1966

literature

  • Wolfgang Benz : German Jews in the 20th Century: A History in Portraits , Beck, Munich 2011, therein: Enlightenment and humanist: Lucien Steinberg , pp. 266–280, ISBN 978-3-406-62292-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Lucien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 2008
Place of death Paris