Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
ActingNovember 3, 1912-December 11, 1996
Birth Place
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Biography
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (née Vogel) was a French Resistance member in World War II as well as a photojournalist, deported to Auschwitz in 1943. She survived the war and became a Communist politician, elected to Parliament under the Fourth and Fifth Republic.
