A Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps before going on to create an organisation to fight antisemitism has died.
Charles Palant, who was 93 , co-founded the Movement against Racism and Antisemitism and for Peace (MRAP) in 1949 after spending 650 days in the two death camps from 1943 until the end of the war.
Born in Paris in 1922, he became a Communist supporter before his teens, but had a career working in a leather shop cut short when he was forced to flee his home to Lyon in the wake of the Nazi occupation.
Captured by Nazi troops in 1943, he was taken to Auschwitz with his mother and sister, who died during the journey.
