Serge Klarsfeld

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Serge Klarsfeld (born September 17, 1935 in Bucharest ) is a French lawyer and historian .

Life

Serge Klarsfeld was born on September 17, 1935 to Jewish parents (Raissa and Arno Klarsfeld) in Bucharest ( Romania ). The parents met in Paris in 1929 . After the German invasion in June 1940 , they fled to the unoccupied zone of France ( zone libre ). As a child in Nice , Serge Klarsfeld was almost the victim of one of the great raids by Alois Brunner's command (September 30, 1943). The family had hidden behind a double wall of a closet , but the father, who had stayed in the apartment so that the Gestapo would not become suspicious, was arrested, deported and murdered in Auschwitz .

After the war, Klarsfeld studied history at the Sorbonne and politics at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (IEP). He graduated in 1960 with a degree in political science. Klarsfeld received his doctorate (French Docteur ès lettres ). From 1970 Klarsfeld studied law and became a lawyer in Paris.

Serge Klarsfeld with his wife Beate in Jerusalem (2007)

He met his future wife Beate Künzel in 1960. After Klarsfeld took up a position at ORTF in 1963 , they got married. A short time later, Klarsfeld resigned from the radio and went to the grain trading company "Continental Grain". There he was fired in 1970. Beate caused a worldwide sensation when, on November 7, 1968, she publicly slapped the then Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger , whom she accused of his Nazi past.

Serge Klarsfeld founded the Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France in 1979 together with his wife .

Klarsfeld is one of the most prominent researchers who tracked down and undiscovered perpetrators of the Holocaust after 1945, mainly in France and Germany, and brought them to justice. It is thanks to him and his wife, among others, that Nazi criminals and collaborators such as Klaus Barbie , René Bousquet , Jean Leguay , Maurice Papon , Paul Touvier , Kurt Lischka , Ernst Heinrichsohn and Herbert M. Hagen are brought to justice or at least how such as Ernst Achenbach , were unmasked. Klarsfeld also succeeded in locating Alois Brunner , his former pursuer, but Syria, where Brunner is said to have worked for the secret service, refused to extradite .

Klarsfeld is the author of a standard work on the persecution of Jews in France, "Vichy - Auschwitz" (also published in German under the same title). His son Arno Klarsfeld is a well-known lawyer and advisor to Nicolas Sarkozy , French President from May 2007 to May 2012. The daughter Lida Myriam (* 1973) also comes from his marriage to Beate Klarsfeld.

The Hunt for Klaus Barbie was filmed in 2008 under the title Die Hetzjagd .

Together with his wife Beate Klarsfeld, he received the Federal Cross of Merit in May 2015. In October 2015 both were from UNESCO to UNESCO Special Envoy for Education on the Holocaust and the prevention of genocide appointed.

Publications

  • Beate and Serge Klarsfeld (eds.): Le Mémorial de la déportation des Juifs de France. Fayard, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-213-61052-5 , English 1998: ISBN 0-8147-2662-3 .
  • Serge Klarsfeld: Le calendrier de la persécution des Juifs en France (July 1940 - août 1942 [Volume 1]; September 1942 - août 1944 [Volume 2]) (La Shoah en France, Volumes 2 and 3) Fayard, Paris 2001.
  • Serge Klarsfeld: Vichy - Auschwitz. La "solution finale" de la question juive en France (La Shoah en France, Volume 1), Fayard, Paris 2001 (the first German edition was published under the title Vichy - Auschwitz , Greno , Nördlingen 1989; new edition 2007 by WBG , Darmstadt. Review by H.-Georg Lützenkirchen: The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France. (Online) . In: literaturkritik.de , No. 5, May 2008)
  • Serge Klarsfeld: The Children of Izieu , along with Beate Klarsfeld. Berlin: Edition Hentrich, 1991 ISBN 3-89468-001-6 (Series: German Past, first French 1984)
  • Serge Klarsfeld (ed.): The final solution of the Jewish question in France. German documents 1941–1944. (online) Publisher: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1977, Paris, 244 pp.
  • Serge Klarsfeld and Maxime Steinberg (eds.): The final solution of the Jewish question in Belgium. Documents. (online) Publisher: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1980, Paris, 181 pp.
  • Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: memories. Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05707-3 . In the French original: Mémoires . Flammarion, Paris 2015.

Movies

Web links

Commons : Serge Klarsfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Frohn: Klarsfeld scandal: clap for the chancellor. In: Spiegel Online . November 7, 2008, accessed December 31, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Severin Weiland: Nazi hunters: Gauck distinguishes Beate and Serge Klarsfeld. In: Spiegel Online . May 13, 2015, accessed December 31, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, UNESCO Ambassadors. In: UNESCO. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Table of contents ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from arte @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  5. ↑ Interview about the film on nrhz.de
personal data
SURNAME Klarsfeld, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest