In 1960 , Beate Künzel spent a year as an au pair in Paris . By her own admission , at that time politics and history were completely foreign to her . However , in Paris she was confronted with the consequences of The Holocaust . In 1963 , she married the French lawyer and historian Serge Klarsfeld , whose father was a victim of the Auschwitz concentration camp exterminations . Klarsfeld said that her husband helped her to become , " a German of conscience and awareness "
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
Beate Klarsfeld