Klein, Anne and Birte Klarzyk. The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France.

Beginning in 1971, the Klarsfelds in Paris tracked down and pressed dramatically for legal action against three SS officers involved in deportation of France’s Jews. The three SS men finally reached trial in Cologne, after the activists’ highly public efforts in West Germany generated domestic and international attention to the problem of FRG’s judiciary in holding Nazis accountable for assistance in mass murder.

This chapter forms part of: Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022).

Anne Klein and Birte Klarzyk, “The Fils et Filles des Déportés Juifs de France and the Lischka Trial in Cologne, 1971-1980,” in Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 387-425.