The Shoah Memorial is associated with the emotion aroused by the disappearance 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 roundup of Sainte Catherine Street during which his father, Samuel Badinter, was taken and witnessed. Samuel Badinter was deported from the Drancy camp by convoy 53 on 25 March 1943 and murdered 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 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 "... May 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 such forgers of history and of the most tragic story there is that I hope humanity will learn the lesson and keep the memory."
The Shoah Memorial offers its most sincere condolences to the family of Robert Badinter.
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