by Simone Veil · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234058170
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«Une vie» is the autobiography of Simone Veil, published in paperback (436 pages, in French).
Simone Veil recounts in the first person her childhood in Nice, her deportation to Auschwitz with her mother and one of her sisters in 1944, and her political career in France and Europe: Ministry of Health, abortion law, presidency of the European Parliament and work of remembrance on the Shoah.
Work originally published in 2007; it falls within the genres of biography, memoirs, feminism and history.
For readers interested in French political history, feminism and Holocaust testimonies.
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.
