Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Born 1912-11-03 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Died 1996-12-11

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.