Lucien Lazare, French Resistance historian, dies at 101

Lucien Lazare, a French-Israeli historian and former member of the French Resistance, has died in Jerusalem at the age of 101.

Born in Strasbourg in 1924, Lazare served in the ‘Marc Haguenau’ company and participated in the liberation of Castres in 1944. He later immigrated to Israel in 1968, where he served as a high school director in Jerusalem.

As a historian, Lazare was a prominent figure in documenting the Resistance and served on the commission for designating the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ at the Yad Vashem memorial. He authored several books on the Resistance and a dictionary of the Righteous of France. He was also the father-in-law of former Knesset President Avrom Burg.