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Simone Veil

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Simone Veil — The Auschwitz survivor turned minister and European Parliament president, 1927–2017
Deported at sixteen, she carried all her life the number 78651 tattooed at Auschwitz. A magistrate, Health Minister, she steered the 1975 law through a barrage of insults; first president of the elected European Parliament, académicienne, she entered the Panthéon in 2018 with her husband Antoine — one of France’s best-loved women. (Editorial synthesis)
Simone Veil was born on 13 July 1927. (source: Académie française)
Simone Veil was born in Nice. (source: Académie française)
Simone Veil died on 30 June 2017. (source: Académie française)
Simone Veil died in Paris. (source: Académie française)
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