Search results
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.
Simone Veil (/ s i m ɔ n v ɛ j / [N 2] Écouter), née Simone Jacob le 13 juillet 1927 à Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) et morte le 30 juin 2017 à Paris, est une magistrate et une femme d’État française.
Jun 30, 2017 · The French politician, women's rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil has died at the age of 89.
Sep 3, 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.
Jun 23, 2021 · 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.
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.
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 · The French politician, women's rights champion and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil has died at the age of 89.
A survivor of Nazi concentration camps, Simone Veil’s childhood and traumatic experiences during the Second World War sowed the seeds of her commitment to a unified Europe, a cause she would champion for the rest of her life.
Jun 30, 2017 · Simone Veil was born on 13 July 1927 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. In March 1944, Veil was deported to Auschwitz before being moved to Bergen-Belsen where she was interned until January 1945. She then returned to Paris where she studied law, graduating from the Institut d'études politiques in Paris.
