Jean Salomon Kahn (17 May 1929 – 18 August 2013) was a French Jewish community leader, human rights activist, and lawyer.
[1] Grand-nephew of France great rabbi Zadoc Kahn h e denounced during the trial of Klaus Barbie to denounce new holocaust denial movements and the diffusion of books such as the ones of Robert Faurisson or in Bernard Pivot's show Apostrophes, of Maurice Bardèche, to promote Robert Brasillach.
On 9 May 1990, in the program L'Heure de Vérité, which is also the day of the Affair of the desecration of the Jewish cemetery of Carpentras, Jean-Marie Le Pen declared that "the Jews have a lot of power in the press, as the Bretons have in the navy, or the Corsicans in customs, that does not seem to me debatable.
As people from the National Front noticed that a certain number of Jewish lobbies, like that of Mr. Kahn, persecuted them systematically, they have the impression of seeing a lot of it, it's true”.
On 4 February 1995, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, he protested against what he called the "nationalization of the Shoah" by the Polish government, refusing to recognize the specificity of the Jewish martyr.