Tribute to Robert Badinter, who died this Friday, February 9, 2024.
The Shoah Memorial shares in the emotion aroused by the death of Robert Badinter, member of the Board of Directors of our institution.
Robert Badinter left us on February 9, 2024, in his 95th year, 81 years to the day after the raid on Sainte Catherine Street during which his father, Samuel Badinter, was taken and of which he was a witness. Samuel Badinter was deported from the Drancy camp by convoy 53 on March 25, 1943, and assassinated in Sobibor.
At the origin of the law that led to the abolition of the death penalty under Francois Mitterrand in 1981, Robert Badinter allowed for the investigation and trial of Klaus Barbie to take place with the proper guarantees of the rule of law, insisting on the fact that justice must be unassailable. Symbolically, Robert Badinter had decided that Barbie would be incarcerated in the prison of Montluc, where he had been active during the war.
Faced with the trial that opposed him in 2007 to the negationist Faurisson, Robert Badinter had declared «... let things be clear to me until the end of my days and as long as I have a breath, you will never be you and your peers forgers of history and of the most tragic history that there is, which I hope humanity will learn from and keep in memory.
The Shoah Memorial extends its most sincere condolences to the family of Robert Badinter.
Review the exceptional meeting with Robert Badinter
Photo 1: Lecture by Robert Badinter in front of members of the Paris Bar at the Shoah Memorial. Paris, 04/03/2012
Photo 2: Robert Badinter facing the Wall of names at the Shoah Memorial during the Haskarah ceremony, with his grandchildren. Paris, 09/12/2010. © Shoah Memorial
Photo 3: Robert Badinter and Bereck Dudkiewicz, survivors of the convoy during a Commemoration. Without place or date. © Shoah Memorial/ Coll. Ghislaine Spitzer
Photo 4 and 5: Pierre Kaufmann, Claude Kelman and Robert Badinter at the Memorial of the Unknown Jewish Martyr, during the official ceremony of the Hazkara. Paris on 08/10/1989. © Daniel Franck/Memorial de la Shoah
