Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, Guerillas of Memory by Elisabeth Lenchener
Thursday, January 18, 2018 at 7 p.m.
(France, documentary, 52 mn, Online Productions, Di-Zahav, France Télévisions, 2010. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah).
October 3, 1972 – At a press conference in Bonn announcing the discovery of former Paris Gestapo chief Heinrich Illers.
Photography, coll. Klarsfeld.
Born in 1939 in Berlin, Beate Künzel, a Lutheran German, daughter of a soldier of the Wehrmacht, meets at the age of twenty, by chance in a Parisian metro station, Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jew, who is orphaned by a father who died during deportation. It is the beginning of a story of love and adventures that will take them from Chile to Auschwitz, from Venice to Cologne, from Nice to La Paz, and from prisons to courtrooms.
