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Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) and Beate Klarsfeld (née Künzel, born 13 February 1939) are activists known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals. Since the 1960s, they have been famous Nazi hunters, have made notable efforts to commemorate the Jewish victims of German-occupied France of the and have been supporters of Israel. They helped found and have led ''l'Association des fils et filles des déportés juifs de France'' (Association of the sons and daughters of Jews deported from France), or FFDJF. It is one of the groups that has documented cases and located for prosecution such former German and French officials as Klaus Barbie, René Bousquet, Jean Leguay, Maurice Papon, and Paul Touvier, who have been implicated in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of French and foreign Jews during World War II. The Klarsfelds were among organized groups who filed cases decades after the war, sometimes as late as the 1990s, against such officials for their crimes against humanity. In the 1960s, Beate Klarsfeld publicized the wartime activities of West German politicians; on one occasion, she slapped Chancellor Kiesinger in public in protest. After German reunification and the opening of the Stasi records of East Germany, in 2012 it was revealed that both Klarsfelds had been regular Stasi contacts during the 1960s. Beate had received material on the politicians and pay for her actions against West German leaders. In the years before 1989 and the break-up of the Soviet Union, the Klarsfelds frequently protested against the Eastern Bloc's support for an independent Palestine and criticisms of Israel. Recognition for their work has included France's Legion of Honour in 1984. In 1986, their story was adapted as an American television movie starring Tom Conti, Farrah Fawcett, and Geraldine Page. In 2008, a French television movie was made about them. In 2012, Die Linke ("The Left") nominated Beate Klarsfeld as a candidate for President of Germany in opposition to Joachim Gauck, a conservative and a Lutheran pastor from the former East Germany. Gauck was the consensus candidate and won overwhelmingly.〔("Joachim Gauck elected as German president" ), ''New York Times'', 19 March 2012〕 On January 1, 2014, the Klarsfelds were promoted in France's Legion of Honour: Béate became Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur et Serge became Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur〔See,(La légion d'honneur pour Michèle Morgan, Alain Decaux, Serge Klarsfeld.. La Dépêche. 2 janvier 2014. )〕.〔See, Jennifer Schuessler. Arts, Briefly. The New York Times, Thursday, January 2, 2014, p. C2, under "Danielle Steel Awarded French Legion of Honor": "Among the other honorees were the Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.."〕 On October 26, 2015, the UNESCO designate the Klarsfelds as "Honourary Ambassadors and Special Envoys for Education about the Holocaust and the Prevention of Genocide". http://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-honours-beate-and-serge-klarsfeld-their-work-preserve-history-and-teaching-holocaust == Early years == Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest to a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before World War II began. In 1943, his father was arrested by the SS in Nice during a roundup ordered by Alois Brunner. Deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Klarsfeld's father died there. Young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the OSE (Œuvre de secours aux enfants)〔(ose-france.org )〕 organization; his mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France, helped by the underground French Resistance beginning in late 1943. http://en.unesco.org/news/unesco-honours-beate-and-serge-klarsfeld-their-work-preserve-history-and-teaching-holocaust Beate was born Beate Künzel, the daughter of a Christian German family; her father served as a regular Wehrmacht soldier. In 1960, she went to Paris to work as an ''au pair'', where she began to learn more about the Holocaust. Later she worked for the ' (Franco-German Alliance for Youth). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Serge and Beate Klarsfeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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