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Simone Veil (French pronunciation: [simɔn vɛj] ⓘ; née Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women's rights in France, in ...
Holocaust survivor Simone Veil was a pioneer in the French government and the European Union. As Minister of Health, she presented and successfully argued the law decriminalizing abortion in France. She was the first woman to preside over the European Parliament and the fifth woman to be interred in the Panthéon.
Jun 30, 2017 · The French politician, women's rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil has died at the age of 89. Best known in France for her instrumental role in legalising abortion in the 1970s, she ...
Jul 5, 2024 · Bernard Gotfryd, photographer.Simone Veil [French politician]. [between 1980 and 1990]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. A celebrated civil servant, women’s rights figure and Holocaust survivor, Simone (Jacob) Veil (1927–2017) was the driving force behind French womens’ access to contraception and abortion in the twentieth century.
Aug 17, 2023 · Veil is played at different ages by Rebecca Marder and Elsa Zylberstein. Timeline-wise, the actresses switch sometime around the upheaval of May 1968, although the complicated, at times barely ...
Jun 30, 2017 · Mrs. Veil, whose parents and brother died in the Holocaust, rejected the comparison of abortion to murder as absurd. Simone Jacob was born in Nice, France, on July 13, 1927, the youngest of four ...
EN Early Life Simone Jacob was born on 13 July 1927 to a Jewish family in Nice, France. She and the other members of her family were arrested in 1944 and sent to the Nazi concentration camps at
Jun 30, 2017 · A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps and central figure of feminism in Europe, Simone Veil became the first president of the directly elected European Parliament in 1979 and the first woman to hold the post.
Jun 30, 2017 · Simone Veil (1927-2017), born Simone Jacob in Nice, France, was deported to Auschwitz in March of 1944, and from there to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in Germany, where she was liberated on April 15, 1945. After returning to France, she studied law, becoming a magistrate, and in 1974 she was named Minister of Health by French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
When President Giscard d’Estaing asked Veil to head his party’s list in the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979, she jumped at the chance.. Veil was duly elected to Parliament, which chose her as its President, thus becoming leader of the first directly elected European Parliament and the first woman to head any EU institution.
