France Awards Top Honors To Nazi Hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld
Source: France24
Serge Klarsfeld, 83, received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, France's highest award, while the 79-year-old Beate Klarsfeld received the National Order of Merit, having already been decorated with the Legion of Honour in 2014, with the rank of Grand Officer.
The Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia was among those who attended the ceremony at the Elysee Palace limited to family and close friends and associates.
Born September 17, 1935, in the Romanian capital Bucharest, Serge Klarsfeld escaped the Holocaust after his family moved to France but saw his father taken away to die in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. He was naturalised in 1950, and 10 years later, while studying at the prestigious Science-Po university in Paris, Klarsfled met Beate Kuenzel, the daughter of a former German soldier, on a metro platform.
The two, who married three years later, decided to bring fugitive Nazis to justice, a mission they pursued for more than half a century. In one of their most high-profile cases, the Klarsfelds found the notorious Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, a former Gestapo officer known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for his wartime torture of prisoners, who had escaped to South America. - More...
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Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Publish Memoirs of Nazi Hunting, France24, April 21, 2015.
https://www.france24.com/en/focus/20150421-france-nazi-hunters-klarsfeld-serge-beate-klaus-barbie-trial
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Both have been tireless in trying to make sure no nazi scum ever felt comfortable or safe. Blessings on both of them.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)You are a mind reader. Reporting that supports opposition to bigotry is a delight to my eyes.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Ligyron
(7,636 posts)They are out in the open and proud here in the USA. Even Europe, and France in particular, are producing them once again.
Kudos to these two for catching war criminals. Too bad ours have been ignored.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)I know!!!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,353 posts)... they are given Cabinet positions.