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

This exhibition was presented from December 7, 2017 to October 28, 2018 at the Shoah Memorial 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 the publication in 1978 by Serge Klarsfeld of the Memorial of the deportation of the Jews from France, the Shoah Memorial traces the work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld in favor of the victims of the Holocaust and historical knowledge, against the impunity of former officials of the 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 throughout 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memoirs in 2015, the history and motivations of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld’s commitments are recounted through numerous unpublished documents and objects, joining those of a whole generation of which they become the symbols.

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