Historian of the Resistance, as he himself liked to define himself, Lucien Lazarus had devoted much of his work to those who had saved Jews during the Shoah.
Historian of the Resistance, as he himself liked to define himself, Lucien Lazarus had devoted much of his work to those who had saved Jews during the Shoah.
A member of the commission of designation of the Righteous Nations of the Shoah Yad Vashem Memorial, he had published numerous books on the Resistance and a dictionary of the Righteous of France.
Born in 1924 in Strasbourg, he was a member of the Israelite Eclaireurs de France and had fought in the company "Marc Haguenau", taking part in the liberation of Castres (Tarn) in 1944.