David Rousset

David Rousset (1912-1997) was a French writer, Trotskyist activist, and concentration camp survivor who studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and co-founded the Revolutionary Socialist Youth in 1936. Arrested in 1943 for resistance activities, he was imprisoned in Buchenwald and Neuengamme camps until liberation in 1945, after which he authored influential works like L’Univers concentrationnaire (1946) exposing Nazi camp horrors. Postwar, he co-founded the Rassemblement démocratique révolutionnaire with Sartre and Camus, campaigned against Soviet gulags, and later served as a Gaullist deputy in 1968.[1][2][5]