Serge Klarsfeld
Author of Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
About the Author
Image credit: Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Series
Works by Serge Klarsfeld
Memorial to the Jews deported from France, 1942-1944 : documentation of the deportation of the victims of the Final Solution in France (1978) 13 copies
David Olere: The Eyes of a Witness, A Painter in the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz/L'oeil du Temoin, Un Peintre au Sonderkommando a Auschwitz (1989) 3 copies
Le livre des otages: La politique des otages menee par les autorites allemandes d'occupation en France de 1941 a 1943 (French Edition) (1979) 2 copies
Documents Concerning The Destruction Of The Jews Of Grodno 1941-1944 Volume IV. Grodno In The Byalistok Trial (1966-1967) (1986) 1 copy
La Rafle De La Rue Sainte-Catherine — Editor — 1 copy
Vichy Auschwitz: French Language — Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (2020) — Preface, some editions — 375 copies, 14 reviews
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (1995) — Avant-propos, some editions — 64 copies
Un album d'Auschwitz: Comment les nazis ont photographié leurs crimes (2019) — Preface, some editions — 15 copies, 1 review
Persécutions et spoliations des Juifs pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (2013) — Contributor — 2 copies
Les indésirables. Les camps d'internés civils français et étrangers, 1939-1946 (2020) — Preface — 2 copies
La fuite en Suisse. Les Juifs à la frontière franco-suisse durant les années de la Solution finale. itinéraires, stratégies, accueil et refoulement (2020) — Preface, some editions — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Klarsfeld, Serge
- Other names
- KLARSFELD, Serge
- Birthdate
- 1935-09-17
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Sorbonne
University of Paris
Institut d'études politiques de Paris - Occupations
- Nazi hunter
political activist
lawyer
memoirist
historian
Holocaust survivor - Organizations
- Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France
- Awards and honors
- Légion d'Honneur
Ordre national du Mérite
German Order of Merit - Relationships
- Klarsfeld, Beate (edzino)
Klarsfeld, Arno (son) - Short biography
- 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.
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Bucharest, Romania
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- France
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Reviews
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 show more 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. show less
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 show more 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. show less
Another ipad book that was so detailed it was difficult to follow. This family did so very much research over about 50 years that their documentation is vital. I learned so much and did not know or remember how so many people and countries tried so hard to cover up their participation in Germany and Austria's Naziism. Many countries in Europe, South America, Africa, the United States, and Central America welcomed former Nazis after the end of World War II, and they did not want to risk their show more political bonds to bring these perpetrtators into the limelight and to trial. The Klarsfelds risked their lives and the lives of their families endlessly to see that justice was served. We owe them a great deal. show less
For the past half century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, prosecuted, and exposed Nazi war criminals all over the world, tracking down the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and attempting to kidnap the former Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka on the streets of Cologne. They have been sent to prison for their beliefs and have risked their lives protesting anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain in South America and in the Middle East. They have been insulted and exalted, show more assaulted and heralded; they’ve received honors from presidents and letter bombs from neo-Nazis. They have fought relentlessly not only for the memory of all those who died in the Holocaust but also for modern-day victims of genocide and discrimination across the world. And they have done it all while raising their children and sustaining their marriage. show less
Publisher's Weekly:
Serge Klarsfeld, a tireless Nazi hunter who located Klaus Barbie, among others, and the author of 20 books on the Holocaust, has compiled an astonishing, haunting document which restores to us the memory of 2500 children deported by the Vichy government to the German death camps.
French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial has a b&w picture of each child, with a short paragraph detailing his or her place of birth, parentage and manner of deportation. By forcing us to show more confront each victim individually, Klarsfeld not only allows readers a vital historical connection to them but has shown how any attempt to explain their plight must fail.
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There is some historical information in this volume, however the strongest impact is delivered by the photography. It is next to impossible (for me) to look at more than a handful of photographs before I close the book in tears.
This is one book I want to find a proper home for. It belongs in a school, or a community library, where it can be viewed by more people than just me.
There are chips in the binding of my copy, but it's a hardback book, and very durable. show less
Serge Klarsfeld, a tireless Nazi hunter who located Klaus Barbie, among others, and the author of 20 books on the Holocaust, has compiled an astonishing, haunting document which restores to us the memory of 2500 children deported by the Vichy government to the German death camps.
French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial has a b&w picture of each child, with a short paragraph detailing his or her place of birth, parentage and manner of deportation. By forcing us to show more confront each victim individually, Klarsfeld not only allows readers a vital historical connection to them but has shown how any attempt to explain their plight must fail.
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There is some historical information in this volume, however the strongest impact is delivered by the photography. It is next to impossible (for me) to look at more than a handful of photographs before I close the book in tears.
This is one book I want to find a proper home for. It belongs in a school, or a community library, where it can be viewed by more people than just me.
There are chips in the binding of my copy, but it's a hardback book, and very durable. show less
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- Members
- 282
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- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
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- ISBNs
- 32
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