Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

personal-info

known-for

Acting

gender

Female

birthday

1912-11-03

place-of-birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

also-known-as

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.