Return on the trial of Klaus Barbie
Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 7:30 PM
© Memorial of the Shoah/coll. Serge Klarsfeld
On May 11, 1987, the trial of Klaus Barbie opens before the Cour d'assises du Rhône. He is tried for crime against humanity. The charges raised against him are: the roundup of UGIF on Sainte-Catherine street on February 9, 1943 (86 people arrested including 79 deported to Auschwitz), the roundup of the children of Izieu on April 6, 1944 (44 children aged 4 to 17 will be gassed upon their arrival at Auschwitz), and the last convoy of deportees on August 11, 1944. At the end of the trial, Klaus Barbie is sentenced to life imprisonment. This trial marks a turning point in the awakening of the memory of the Second World War and freed the victims' voices.
In the presence of Jean-Olivier Viout, former deputy attorney general, Serge Klarsfeld, former civil party lawyer, founder of the Association of Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees of France and Alain Jakubowicz, former civil party lawyer.
Hosted by Dominique Missika, historian, editor and curator of the exhibition.
Attention, as the auditorium is full for this event, the remaining seats are in the broadcasting room at the Memorial.
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