Former French Justice Minister, Robert Badinter, Died at 95 on the Same Day As the Gestapo Captured His Father During WWII

How this illustrates the coincidences of dates in our lives

during a protest against the death penalty on February 3 2007,

Robert Badinter, a French lawyer famously known for having enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand, died on February 9th, 2024.

As fate would have it, another February 9, 81 years earlier, had already played a tragically crucial role in his life.

It might seem astonishing that a man should die on the anniversary of a key date in his life.

But when examining our Family Tree and the most important dates in our lives (birth, marriage, death, and other major events) psychogenealogy reveals that those dates may not be random and often come back as reminders that something from the past is still active.

Recurring dates in our lives seem to be determined by traumatic events from the past. Robert Badinter’s date of death exemplifies this.

This is why it is interesting to take a look at the story of his life, sadly scarred by the Second World War.

Robert Badinter was born in 1928 in Paris. His Bessarabian Jewish family had…