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Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
Acting
03 Nov 1912
† 11 Dec 1996
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.
