by Simone Veil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791037500908
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«L'aube à Birkenau» is the testimony of Simone Veil, collected by David Teboul, published by Les Arènes in paperback (281 pages, in French).
Simone Veil recalls in the first person her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and the difficult return to a France devastated by war. David Teboul collects and transcribes their conversations, shaping an intimate testimony of survival: the dispossession, the loss and the reconstruction of a life after the horror.
Published in 2019, this edition includes a glossary of terms and historical references to contextualise the account.
Aimed at readers interested in Holocaust testimonies, the history of France and the figure of Simone Veil.
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.
