Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the battles of memory (1968-1978)

This exhibition was presented from 7 December 2017 to 28 October 2018 at the Memorial de la Shoah in Paris.

Fifty years after the slap administered by Beate Klarsfeld in 1968 to the West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and forty years after publication in 1978 by Serge Klarsfeld of Memorial of the deportation of the Jews of France, the Holocaust Memorial traces the work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in favour of victims of the Holocaust and historical knowledge, against the impunity of former Final solution and against theanti-Semitism.

The decade 1968-1978 marks an important turning point in the evolution of the memory of the Shoah in Europe and in the world. The spectacular action of the couple formed by Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, carried out on several continents, plays a major role in this movement towards recognition.

After the publication of their memoirs in 2015, the history and motivations of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld’s commitments are restored through numerous unpublished documents and objects, joining those of a whole generation whose symbols they become.

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