Tribute to Badinter

Sunday, February 9, 2025, the Shoah Memorial paid tribute to Robert Badinter by summoning a less well-known aspect of his author: his theater.

"I have always passionately loved the theater. In the aftermath of the war, I discovered its power to captivate the third balcony where the students were judging each other. (...) The youth ran away, but the passion for theatre remained. Such a passion was to bear fruit.

Robert Badinter was born in 1928 in Paris. His father, Samuel Badinter, was deported from the Drancy camp by convoy 53 on March 25, 1943, and assassinated in Sobibor.

Exceptional lawyer, minister at the initiative of major reforms, Robert Badinter was at the origin of the law that led to the abolition of the death penalty under François Mitterrand in 1981.

In the presence of Charles Berling.