"In a millennium more we will look at his works"

Writer, historian, and especially lawyer, Serge Klarsfeld is one of the great defenders of the cause of the Jewish deportees in France, with his wife Béate. Together they fought for the transmission of the memory of the Holocaust and fought against the impunity of the old Nazis. A fight for the memory shared constantly with Claude Lanzmann, the friend of always, since the Liberation, which disappeared on July 5th.

Interview: Marie Berrurier, Pascal Caron

In this moving interview conducted this afternoon, the lawyer, President of the Association the sons and daughters of the Jewish deportees of France evoke above all their common struggle, "against indifference and against obstacles": "Claude Lanzmann was my friend and I always supported, I always followed the same axis as him "

" In a millennium still we will look at his works "

" And then it is a witness of our time an actor and a man that I admire a lot ": the armed resistance to 17 years, and then another type of engagement after the war. Klarsfeld insists on Lanzmann's particular approach, to have wanted to go through intellectual training to better understand what happened, and to do this in Germany "because he admired German philosophy".

Finally there was "Shoah", a "brilliant work". "A great work, which he did not conceive as a small film. He conceived of it as a mbad of information. It was necessary to interview the victims, but as the executioners, to extract from them their deep truth. It is a work of both extreme intelligence and sensitivity (…) In a millennium, we will look at his works and we will try to understand the Shoah through them. "

" On remain unarmed by his departure, "concludes Serge Klarsfeld." It feels like he's gone really elsewhere, "he is" full of fire up there. He can not be dead. "