Serge Klarsfeld

Serge Klarsfeld (M / Romania, 1935), Holocaust survivor

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Biography

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Serge Klarsfeld was born in Bucharest into a family of Romanian Jews. They migrated to France before the Second World War 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. His mother and sister also survived the war in Vichy France, helped by the underground French Resistance beginning in late 1943.