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Gangbare naam: Klarsfeld, Serge
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: KLARSFELD, Serge
Geboortedatum: 1935-09-17
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: France
Geboorteplaats: Bucharest, Romania
Woonplaatsen: Paris, France
Opleiding: Sorbonne
University of Paris
Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Beroepen: Nazi hunter
political activist
lawyer
memoirist
historian
Holocaust survivor
Relaties: Klarsfeld, Beate (edzino)
Klarsfeld, Arno (son)
Organisaties: Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: Legion d'Honneur
Ordre national du Mérite
German Order of Merit
Korte biografie: Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews that emigrated to France before World War II. In 1943, his father was arrested and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he was killed. Serge, his mother and sister escaped arrest and survived in hiding. In the 1950s, he studied history at the Sorbonne, graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and received a law degree from the University of Paris. In 1963, he married Beate Klarsfeld, née Kunzel, with whom he had two children, including a son, Arno, who works with his parents. Together the Klarsfelds became internationally-recognized for their work documenting the Holocaust and tracking down Nazi war criminals, surviving car bombs and other personal attacks along the way. He helped found and lead the Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France (Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France) or FFDJF, one of the groups that has documented cases and located former German and French officials implicated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of French and foreign Jews. Among his awards are the French Legion of Honor (1984) and the German Federal Cross of Merit (2015). The Klarsfeld story has been adapted as an American television film and as a French television movie.

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French Children of the Holocaust . A Memorial door Serge Klarsfeld; Kenan Malik; Howard M. Epstein

Learn more about Serge Klarsfeld at klarsfeldfoundation.org. During World War II, 11,000 Jewish children were deported from France to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in convoys that continued rolling until August 18, 1944-the very day of the Paris uprising that ended with the city's liberation. The children were among more than 75,000 French Jews deported to the camps under the Nazi plan for the final solution of the Jewish question. Nearly all of the young victims-some less than two years old-were arrested by the French police on orders of the Vichy government and turned over to the Germans for deportation. Only a handful of the children survived. In French Children of the Holocaust, Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld-the man who brought Klaus Barbie to justice in 1983-has created a volume of stunning documentary importance. Drawing together archival evidence pried with difficulty from the French government, family testimony and photographs solicited by advertisements in Jewish publications in Europe, Israel, and the United States, and the Nazi's own lists of deportees--which were discovered, fading and crumbling, by Klarsfeld in a French Jewish archive--this book represents the culmination of many volunteers' painstaking efforts to give testimony to the short lives of these Jewish children. Photographs of over 1,500 of the children, gathered from their surviving relatives and family friends all over the world, bring life to their brief biographies. Included with each photograph is the name, age, place and date of birth, home address, and the date and brief history of the deportation convoys that transported them to the death camps. This book is an invaluable reference for scholars of the Holocaust, signifying the last attempt to rescue these young victims of the Nazis from oblivion and to help them leave a permanent mark on history as individuals and as a group. Table of Contents: Foreword Author's Preface Editors' Notes Acknowledgments Content and Style Guide Jewish Children and the Holocaust in France History and Chronology Maps The Rescue of Children by OSE Deportation Convoys Research and Documentation: Reconstructing the convoy lists Names and Addresses of the 11,000 Children Deported, by Convoy Convoy Histories The Photographs of Jewish Children Officials responsible for anti-Jewish actions in France Terms and abbreviations Index of all children Index of children in photographs… (meer)

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For Justice: The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story door Pascal Bresson

Start off by slapping a Nazi and then chase other Nazi assholes all over Europe and South America in order to bring them to justice? Hell yeah!

I was not familiar with the Klarsfelds before this book, but now I'm a big admirer. Even though this is an authorized story, it is not afraid to make them look a little off-kilter and even incompetent in their crusade to bring Nazis to trial even decades after the end of World War II. It's disheartening to see the wheels of justice turn so slowly, but inspiring to see people committed to seeing it through to the end.

Superhero writer Mark Waid helped with the English translation of this French graphic novel adapted from the memoirs of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.… (meer)

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La Traque des Criminels Nazi door Serge Klarsfeld

Traquer les criminels nazis, tel est le combat mené par Serge et Beate Klarsfeld depuis cinquante ans. Distribution de tracts, manifestations, sit-in, tentatives d enlèvement, coups d éclat ainsi Beate giflant le chancelier Kiesinger, en novembre 1968, « pour qu on reparle de son passé nazi » , la « méthode Klarsfeld » prouve leur obstination à débusquer ces anciens criminels qui occupaient encore des postes officiels en toute impunité. Serge Klarsfeld s est plongé dans les archives de L Express pour nous raconter, grâce aux plumes aussi prestigieuses que celles de Raymond Aron, Jacques Derogy, Éric Conan, Fred Kupferman ou de Beate Klarsfeld elle-même, la traque d Eichmann, Mengele, Lischka, Brunner et, bien sûr, de Klaus Barbie, jugé à Lyon en 1987. Un document pour l histoire, la mémoire et la justice. (fonte: Amazon)… (meer)

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