On Sunday, February 9, 2025, the Shoah Memorial paid tribute to Robert Badinter by summoning a less well-known aspect of his character: his theater.
«I have always been passionately fond of the theatre. In the aftermath of the war, I discovered its power to bewitch the third balcony where the students stood. The youth fled, but the passion for theatre remained. Such a passion was bound 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 25 March 1943 and murdered 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.
