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The words of Simone Veil, never heard. An interview of several hours, filmed in 2006, which she had not wanted to make public during her lifetime. Selected pieces.
If no one is unaware of Simone Veil’s fights for Europe, abortion, women’s rights, which have made her an icon beyond political divisions, there is one led throughout her life. , the one against forgetting. Like other survivors of Nazi concentration camps, she wanted her testimony to survive her.
Facing the camera of Catherine Bernstein, for the National Audiovisual Institute (INA) and the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, the former President of the European Parliament unrolls the film of her life, the sun of Nice and the carefree childhood in a united family, then the war and the horror of the camps.
“Only hope soothes the pain”
This is an exceptional document offered by the magazine “1:15 p.m. on Sunday” (Twitter, #1:15 p.m.)excerpts from an interview lasting several hours filmed in 2006, unpublished testimony that had not been made public during his lifetime (selected pieces and images by Hélène Lam Trong, Anne Cohen and Henri Desaunay).
The entirety of this unpublished story by Simone Veil is available on the website www.ina.frin the book Only hope eases the pain (ed. Flammarion/INA) and available as a podcast on all listening platforms.
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