The World - News from June 18, 1987

Serge Klarsfeld, the lawyer who helped hunt down accused “Butcher of Lyon” Klaus Barbie, urged a French jury to convict the former Gestapo chief in Lyon on behalf of 44 Jewish children deported to Nazi death camps in World War II, allegedly on Barbie’s orders. In his closing arguments, Klarsfeld intoned the names of the 44 children, saying, “Sami did not return . . . Hans did not return . . . Sarah did not return. . . .” Klarsfeld and his wife, Beate, found Barbie in Bolivia and led the effort to have him brought back to France for trial. The summary arguments are to continue through June 26.