Serge Klarsfeld
Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, he has made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France and has been a supporter of Israel.
Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest into a family of Romanian Jews that migrated to France before the Second World War began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois Brunner. Deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Klarsfeld's father died there.
The young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the Œuvre de secours aux enfants, a French Jewish humanitarian organisation. His mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France and were helped by the underground French Resistance beginning in late 1943.
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
The Memory of Justice
My Enemy's Enemy
Hunting Down the Nazis
Apostrophes
L'Invité
La France de l'épuration, entre vengeance et justice
The Shoshani Riddle
Mein Name sei Altmann
Les rafles d'août 1942 en zone libre, un crime de l'État Français