An unpublished essay by Simone Veil on the Holocaust and the deportation of her family, originally from Nice, is due to be published in September.
“For future generations”, this test of 160 pages published by Albin Michel will be published on September 28
It comes from a conference given in April 2005 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris by the person who was at the time a member of the Constitutional Council.
Simone Veil, according to the publisher, “addresses the themes and concerns that are dearest to him: the memory of the Shoah, its transmission to new generations, the fate of hidden children, reconciliation and the necessary European unity, the role of fiction and youth in not forgetting the tragedies of the past.”
Before becoming a figure in French and European political life, Simone Veil was arrested at the age of 16 in Nice with her family on March 30, 1944.
The 50 avenue Georges Clémenceau in Nice, the building where she was born on July 13, 1927.
She was deported to Auschwitz on April 13, among 1,500 Jews. She lost her parents and her brother in the Shoah.
I am tempted to say that current events make Albin Michel’s initiative even more important (…). It is a great deal of work that Albin Michel has done, in giving his presentation, and in remaining perfectly faithful to the text of this conference.
Pierre-François Veil, during a presentation of the literary rentrée of this publishing house at the beginning of June.
Simone Veil, who died in June 2017, entered the Pantheon on July 1, 2018.
