Hunting the truth : memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld / Beate and Serge Klarsfeld ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939- author.

Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935- author.

Contributor:

Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.

Standardized Title:

Mémoires. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-.

Klarsfeld, Beate.

Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-.

Klarsfeld, Serge.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Nazi hunters.

France.

Nazi hunters--France--Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945.).

Local Subjects:

Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-.

Klarsfeld, Serge, 1935-.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945.).

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

454 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Summary:

"The memoirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, political activists best known for hunting Nazis"-- Provided by publisher.

"For more than half a century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, and exposed Nazi war criminals, tracking them down in places as far-flung as South America and the Middle East. It is they who uncovered the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie, known as 'the Butcher of Lyon, ' in Bolivia. It is they who outed Kurt Lischka as chief of the Gestapo in Paris, the man responsible for the largest deportation of French Jews. And it is they who, with the help of their son, Arno, brought the Vichy police chief Maurice Papon to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War. Beate's father was in the Wehrmacht, while Serge's father was deported to Auschwitz because he was a Jew. But when Serge and Beate met on the Paris metro, they instantly fell in love. They soon married and have since dedicated their lives to 'hunting the truth'--both as world-famous Nazi hunters and as meticulous documenters of the fate of the innocent French Jewish children who were killed i n the death camps. They have been jailed and targeted by letter bombs, and their car was even blown up. Yet nothing has daunted the Klarsfelds in their pursuit of justice. Beate made worldwide headlines at age twenty-nine by slapping the high-profile ex-Nazi propagandist Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and shouting 'Nazi!' Serge intentionally provoked a neo-Nazi in a German beer hall by wearing an armband with a yellow star on it, so that the press would report on the assault. When Pope John Paul II met with Austria's then-president, Kurt Waldheim, a former Wehrmacht officer in the Balkans suspected of war crimes, the Klarsfelds' son, dressed as a Nazi officer, stood outside the Vatican. The Klarsfelds also dedicated themselves to defeating Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front and his daughter Marine Le Pen's 2017 campaign for president in France. Brave, urgent, and buoyed by a remarkable love story, Hunting the Truth is not only the dramatic memoir of bringing Nazis to justice, it is al so the inspiring story of an unrelenting battle against prejudice and hate."--Jacket.

"In this dual autobiography, the Klarsfelds tell the dramatic story of fifty years devoted to bringing Nazis to justice. They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard when his father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. They met on the Paris Métro and fell in love, and became famous when Beate slapped the face of the West German chancellor--a former Nazi--Kurt Georg Kiesinger. For the past half century, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld have hunted, confronted, prosecuted, and exposed Nazi war criminals all over the world, tracking down the notorious torturer Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and attempting to kidnap the former Gestapo chief Kurt Lischka on the streets of Cologne. They have been sent to prison for their beliefs and have risked their lives protesting anti-Semitism behind the Iron Curtain in South America and in the Middle East. They have been insulted and exalted, assaulted and heralded; they've received honors from presidents and letter bombs from neo-Nazis. They have fought relentlessly not only for the memory of all those who died in the Holocaust but also for modern-day victims of genocide and discrimination across the world. And they have done it all while raising their children and sustaining their marriage. Now, for the first time, in Hunting the Truth, a major memoir written in their alternating voices, Beate and Serge Klarsfeld tell the thrilling story of a lifetime dedicated to combating evil." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Beate Klarsfeld

Serge Klarsfeld.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Originally published in 2015 by Fayard/Flammarion, France, as Mémoires."

Translated from the French.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2018

"Originally published in 2015 by Fayard/Flammarion, France, as Me⁺ѓmoires."

ISBN:

9780374279820

0374279829

9780374538170

0374538174

OCLC:

988051312

Publisher Number:

40028038205