For Justice: The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story

by Pascal Bresson, Sylvain Dorange (Illustrator)

Overview

The remarkable true story of a mild-mannered French husband and wife who become the world's most revered pair of Nazi hunters.

For more than five decades, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to seeking justice for the victims and survivors of the evils wrought upon humanity by the Holocaust. Over the years, they have received numerous national awards for their lifetime of work hunting down Nazi war criminals and forcing Europe to face the horrors of its past.

For Justice: The Serge and Beate Klarsfeld Story is the tale of their relentless crusade for justice and their emergence as a voice for the voiceless.

Written in partnership with Serge and Beate Klarsfeld.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643375243
Publisher:	Humanoids, Inc.
Publication date:	01/26/2021
Pages:	120
Sales rank:	544,509
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Editorial Reviews

10/26/2020

Part love story, part thriller, Bresson and Dorange’s moving account of Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld makes a strong case for holding leaders and high-ranking bad actors accountable regardless of how much time has passed since their crimes. Serge, the son of a French Holocaust victim, meets Beate, a young German woman, in a Paris train station in 1960. He becomes an attorney and she a journalist, and soon they are working together to bring to justice Nazis who are living freely in Europe and South America. Their white whale is Klaus Barbie, who signed orders that allowed 44 Jewish French children to be executed at the Drancy concentration camp. They track Barbie to Bolivia, where he is coaching the Bolivian military in torture techniques, amply proving that their obsessions are worthy when Barbie is arrested and ultimately sentenced to life in prison. It can be hard to keep the Klarsfelds’ many targets and trials straight, but pointy-nosed Beate and pompadoured Serge are riveting heroes, whom Dorange styles against a modish and earth-toned backdrop. “Human nature gives us a terrible perspective on the infinite capacity of the ‘civilized’ man to do evil,” Serge reflects. This skillful graphic biography offers timely perspective. (Jan.)

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