Serge klarsfeld biography

The Memorial, published in an American edition in and now out of print, seemed definitive to all but Serge Klarsfeld. He resisted requests to reprint it, choosing, rather, to build on it and further advance the restoration of memory.

Serge klarsfeld biography

The result is the book in your hands. The world knows the face of Anne Frank. Here are the faces of 2, children, under age 18, all but a tiny fraction soon to be killed. There's a depthless quality to the children's memorial. No matter how often I open it to a random page, it seems there's always a new face, solemn or smiling, that I'd missed, as from a luminous spring burbling up from a dark source.

Each time, with the same fragile optimism, I check convoy number, hoping it's a later one from , allowing for the slight chance that the child survived if he or she was old enough to be selected for slave labor.

Far more likely, the convoy falls in that dreadful summer and fall of , following the mass arrests of Je