Personalities
Beate Klarsfeld – Nazi hunter. Photographed in 1972. The German born daughter of a clerk at the Berlin Law Courts, she arrived in Paris in 1960 as an au pair. There she met and married lawyer Serge Klarsfeld, a French Jew who had hidden in a cupboard with his mother and sister as the Nazis dragged his father away to deportation and death in Auschwitz. Three hard-hitting articles for the French newspaper Combat, in which she attacked the record of the German Chancellor Kurt-Georg Kiesinger as a supported of Hitler, were followed by headlines when she slapped Kiesinger across the face at a meeting in West Berlin. Later she made headlines again when she attempted to kidnap Kurt Liscka, former head of the Berlin Gestapo’s anti-Jewish department. When I met her she was hunting Gestapo head Obersturmfuhrer Klaus Barbie, notorious throughout Europe as the man who tortured and killed French Resistance leader Jean Moulin. Sometime after our meeting she succeeded in bringing him to trial.
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Concentration Camp Survivors. Sue Ryder, wife of Leonard Cheshire VC set up a home for former Polish and Czech SOE agents who had been captured and suffered in Nazi concentration camps. Maria Dratwa and Wanda Myslakovska two of those attending the Sue Ryder home are former concentration camp prisoners and ex SOE agents. Here they are clearning the ground for a new building. A guest at the Sue Ryder home shows his concentration camp number tattooed on his arm. Photographed 1973.
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Desmond Morris, world famous author of the Naked Ape and The Human Zoo at his home in Oxford with his young son. Circa 1975
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Erin Pizzey Home for Battered Women Chiswick
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People General
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