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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
Jun 14, 2024 · 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.
Simone Veil was a survivor of the Holocaust, having been deported with one of her sisters and her mother and interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she was a pioneer in the French government, penitentiary administration, and judicial system as well as in the European Union. As Minister of Health during Valéry Giscard ...
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,...
Aug 17, 2023 · Elsa Zylberstein and Rebecca Marder play the French politician Simone Veil in this heavy-handed biopic.
Jun 30, 2017 · Simone Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who as health minister of France championed the 1975 law that legalized abortion in that country, and who was the first woman to be chosen president of the ...
Veil’s childhood and traumatic experiences during the Second World War sowed the seeds of a commitment to a unified Europe, a cause she would champion for the rest of her life.
