Sons and Daughters of Jewish Deportees from France

Serge Klarsfeld—an academic historian specializing in the fate of Jews in France during World War II—founded the organization in 1979 and continues to serve as its president.

In doing so the organisation draws on its members and a library of evidence to research and publish notable cases of French and German Holocaust survivors, unidentified fates and continue to relate unpublished reflections on atrocities.

During a reading of the names of French Jews at the Paris Shoah Memorial, Serge Klarsfeld stated, "We are refusing to allow the victims [to] remain anonymous.

"[1] Klasfeld was an advocate at the Court of Appeal of Paris, has written books on the fate of French Jews during World War II and has taken an active role in bringing Nazi and Vichy officials to trial for crimes committed in France during the war.

Klarsfeld was arrested in Germany and Syria in trying to have Nazi criminal Alois Brunner extradited to France.