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Klarsfeld honoured for anti-Nazi work
PARIS (AP). - Beate Klarsfeld, who has devoted her life to hunting down Nazi war criminals, was made a Chevalier, (knight) of the French Legion of Honour on Tuesday. In a ceremony. Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson said Klarsfeld has over the years "contributed much to the service of man in his dignity and fundamental grandeur." "Indifferent to pressures, threats and atlacks," he noted, "Mrs. Klarsfeld has been detained a dozen times in various countries in her effort to bring war criminals to justice. "I think I have done the duly of the French woman that I am and of the German that I remain," Klarsfeld said during her own brief remarks. Klarsfeld became a French citizen through her marriage to lawyer Serge Klarsfeld, who recently was himself made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and was present at the ceremony at the Foreign Ministry along with the couple's two children. Ovadia Sofer, Israel ambassador to France, was also present. |
