that there should be no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, thus opening the way with the ratification, by France in 1968, of the Convention of United Nations on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity. In 1987, she called all the civil parties to testify against Klaus Barbie. During the creation of the Foundation for the Memory of the Deportation, in 1990, she was unanimously designated President, then President d' Honneur until her death on December 11, 1996. Honours Légion d'honneur Chevalier from December 20, 1945 Officer from 1981 Commander from 1995 Combattante Volontaire de la Résistance et de décorations étrangères (Croix de Guerre Tchécoslovaque). See also Convoi des 31000 International concentration camp committees Notes Bibliography Benoit Cazenave: Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier, in: Hier war das Ganze Europa, Brandenburg Memorial Foundation, Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004, External links Vaillant-Couturier's hearing at the Nuremberg Trials Retrieved May 3, 2010 Vaillant-Couturier's testimony 1912 births 1996 deaths Politicians from Paris French Communist Party politicians Socialist feminists Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1945) Members of the Constituent Assembly of France (1946) Deputies of the 1st National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 3rd National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Deputies of the 4th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Women members of the National Assembly (France) 20th-century French women politicians Communist members of the French Resistance Female resistance members of World War II Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur French women in World War II