Exhibitions – Berlin – Exhibition shows the anti-fascist struggle of the Klarsfelds – culture
Berlin (dpa) – The life and anti-fascist struggle of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld are the focus of an exhibition in Berlin’s Red City Hall. Born in Berlin and living in Paris, Beate Klarsfeld (83) and her husband Serge (87) have fought all their lives to track down Nazi criminals and bring them to justice. The exhibition, which has already been shown in Paris, is to be shown in the Red City Hall until November 23 and will then be taken over by the Topographie des Terrors in Berlin.
Beate Klarsfeld also became famous when she slapped Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in Berlin on November 7, 1968. The CDU politician was once a member of the NSDAP and also held leading positions as a Nazi.
The life work of the Klarsfelds, who met in Paris in the 1960s, was the pursuit of Nazi criminals. In the 1970s, for example, they suspected the Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie, feared for his cruelty as the “Butcher of Lyon”, who lived in hiding in Bolivia as Klaus Altmann.
The exhibition traces the life and work of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld. According to the information, the exhibition was completely revised for Berlin in dialogue with the couple. The career is illustrated with newspaper clippings, archive material, personal items and photographs. A film shows previously unpublished interviews with Beate and Serge Klarsfeld and with activists from the very beginning.
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