Background
He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936.
He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1936.
In 1946, he returned to Poland with his family, but he left for Paris in 1950, when he was fourteen, and studied pantomime under Marcel Marceau.
In 1945 he was chosen to travel to Moscow to present flowers to Joseph Stalin. In 1946 the family returned to Poland and in 1950, they emigrated to France, taking up residence in Paris. He was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts to study painting.
His first international exhibit was in 1955 in Buenos Aires, and he remained in that city for 2 years, returning to France in 1957, where he engaged in political journalism and advocacy.
In 1991 Halter organized the French College in Moscow. As of 2007 he remained the president of the college.
Halter has also been subject to controversy in recent years. French magazines Le Point and Le Nouvel Observateur have accused him of lying about several parts of his life.
Nonfiction works include:
The Jester And the Kings: a Political (1989)
Stories of Deliverance: Speaking with Men And Women Who Rescued Jews from the Holocaust (1998).