Story of Her Life
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Simone Veil, French abortion pioneer, Auschwitz survivor and former President of the European…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Veil
Veil was born Simone Annie Liline Jacob in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the daughter of Yvonne (Steinmetz) and André Jacob, an architect.[1] She completed her baccalauréat on 28 March 1944 and was arrested by German authorities days later.[2][3] Her family was Jewish. Veil's family—Simone, her mother and one sister, Madeleine (nicknamed Milou)—was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were later transferred to Bergen-Belsen, where her mother Yvonne died of typhus shortly before the camp's 15 April 1945 liberation. Veil's father and brother also died; they are last known to have been sent on a transport to Lithuania.[1] Veil's other sister, Denise, who had been arrested as a member of the Resistance at the start of the war, survived her imprisonment in Ravensbrück. Milou died in a car crash in the 1950s. Veil returned to speak at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2005 for the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camps.[4]
Having obtained her baccalauréat before being deported, she began the study of law and political science at Sciences Po and at the University of Paris, where she met her future husband Antoine Veil.[5] The couple married on 26 October 1946, and had three sons: Jean, Claude-Nicolas, and Pierre François. Antoine Veil died on 12 April 2013, at the age of 86 after 66 years of marriage.[6]
Veil became an attorney and worked for several years as a civil servant in the Ministry of Justice.
