Serge Klarsfeld

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. He helped found and has led the Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France (Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France) or FFDJF. It is one of the groups that has documented cases and located former German and French officials for prosecution such as Klaus Barbie, René Bousquet, Jean Leguay, Maurice Papon and Paul Touvier, who had been implicated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of French and foreign Jews during the Second World War. The Klarsfelds were among organised groups who filed cases decades after the war, sometimes as late as the 1990s, against such officials for crimes against humanity. In the years before 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Klarsfelds (Serge Klarsfeld and his wife Beate) frequently protested against the Eastern Bloc's support for the PLO and anti-Zionism. Recognition for their work has included France's Legion of Honour in 1984. In 1986, their story was adapted as an American television film starring Tom Conti, Farrah Fawcett and Geraldine Page. In 2008, a French television movie was made about them. On 1 January 2014, the Klarsfelds' Legion of Honour ranks were upgraded: Serge became Grand officier. On 26 October 2015, the UNESCO designated the Klarsfelds as "Honorary Ambassadors and Special Envoys for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide". Serge married Beate Künzel in 1963 and settled in Paris. Their son, Arno Klarsfeld (born 1965), became a human rights attorney and worked for Nicolas Sarkozy while he was minister of the interior. In 2012 the archivist of the Stasi revealed that Beate Klarsfeld's attack on German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger by publicly slapping him on 7 November 1968 was carried out in agreement with and the support of the government of East Germany, which was conducting a campaign against West German politicians (see Braunbuch). Beate Klarsfeld was paid 2,000 DM by the Stasi for her actions. Both Serge and Beate Klarsfeld were revealed to have been regular Stasi contacts. According to the State Commissioner for the Stasi Archives of Saxony, they cooperated with the Stasi in the 1960s in blackmailing West German politicians for Second World War activities. ... Source: Article "Serge Klarsfeld" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Serge Klarsfeld
  • Popularity: 0.398
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1935-09-17
  • Place of Birth: Bucharest, Romania
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Serge Klarsfeld Movies

  • 2015
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    Mein Name sei Altmann

    Mein Name sei Altmann

    8 2015 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Secret Of The Auschwitz Albums - Photos From Hell

    The Secret Of The Auschwitz Albums - Photos From Hell

    1 2016 HD

    Photography was strictly forbidden in Auschwitz. And yet there are several photo albums from the scene of the crime. Who took the photos - and why?...

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  • 2007
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    Hunting Down the Nazis

    Hunting Down the Nazis

    7.2 2007 HD

    For the first time, a film recounts the story of the long pursuit of Nazis in hiding from 1945 to the present day. Sixty years of investigations,...

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  • 2023
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    The Shoshani Riddle

    The Shoshani Riddle

    6 2023 HD

    No one knows his real name; he is only known as Mr. Shoshani. He was an eternal nomad, a mad genius, who attracted disciples such as Nobel Prize...

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  • 1976
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    The Memory of Justice

    The Memory of Justice

    7.1 1976 HD

    This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the...

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  • 2011
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    Berlin - Paris: Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld

    Berlin - Paris: Die Geschichte der Beate Klarsfeld

    1 2011 HD

    With her slap of the Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in 1968, Beate Klarsfeld abruptly got known worldwide. The film highlights the...

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  • 1988
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    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

    7 1988 HD

    Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in...

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  • 2018
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    Cojot: A Second Chance Comes Only Once

    Cojot: A Second Chance Comes Only Once

    1 2018 HD

    Tells the virtually unknown story of a Parisian banker who risks his life, career and marriage to hunt down Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie and, only...

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  • 2010
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    La vie après la Shoah

    La vie après la Shoah

    1 2010 HD

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  • 2014
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    Les juifs d'Afrique du Nord pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

    Les juifs d'Afrique du Nord pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

    6 2014 HD

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  • 2009
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    Les rafles d'août 1942 en zone libre, un crime de l'État Français

    Les rafles d'août 1942 en zone libre, un crime de l'État Français

    6 2009 HD

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  • 2012
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    Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation

    Ils ne savaient pas ? Les Français et la Shoah sous l'occupation

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2015
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    La justice allemande face aux criminels nazis

    La justice allemande face aux criminels nazis

    1 2015 HD

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  • 2013
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    Les lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944

    Les lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2010
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    Nazi Hunters

    Nazi Hunters

    1 2010 HD

    Witnesses and historians retell the events leading up to the capture and or death of some of World War Two's most heinous Nazi fugitives.

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 2002
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    L'Invité

    L'Invité

    4.5 2002 HD

    The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.

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