Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

Madame Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier
Born	Marie-Claude Vogel 3 November 1912 Paris, Third French Republic
Died	11 December 1996 (aged 84) Villejuif, Fifth French Republic
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Collège Sévigné
Era	Fourth and Fifth Republic
Employer(s)	Vu, L'Humanité
Organization(s)	French Resistance, Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotes
Title	Member of Parliament
Term	1945–1958, 1962–1967, 1967–1973
Political party	Communist
Criminal penalty	Deported to Auschwitz in 1943
Criminal status	Transferred to Ravensbrück, stayed after the liberation to care for the sick
Spouse(s)	Paul Vaillant-Couturier Pierre Villon
Parents	Lucien Vogel, editor and publisher of Gazette du Bon Ton and Vu (father) Cosette de Brunhoff, first editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue (mother)
Relatives	Sister Nadine Vogel, actress Brother Nicolas Vogel, actor Grandfather Hermann Vogel, illustrator

Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (née Vogel; 3 November 1912 – 11 December 1996)^[1] 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.