Jules de Koenigswarter

Baron Jules Adolphe de Kœnigswarter (also Königswarter) (7 March 1904 – 15 February 1995), was a French soldier and diplomat of Jewish descent.

At the outbreak of World War II, Koenigswarter joined the Free French Forces, and led troops in Africa and Europe.

[1] Much of his extended family perished in the Holocaust, including his mother, who dismissed his entreaties and instructions to escape and was murdered at Auschwitz.

[20] Together, they were the parents of:[21] Jules and Nica separated in 1951 and after saxophonist Charlie Parker died at her apartment in the Stanhope Hotel in 1955, Koenigswarter filed for divorce, which was granted in 1956 along with custody of their three minor children.

[25] On 15 March 1956, Baron de Koenigswarter was married to Madeleine Adrienne Emma Le Forestier in New York City.