Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi

Mémorial de la Shoah

How can we approach Simone Veil by a path other than the now familiar one of the stateswoman? How can we restore the innocence of a childhood in Nice brutally interrupted by the Occupation and deportation? The exhibition Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi, conceived by the filmmaker and photographer David Teboul, seeks to bring forth the intimate history of the Jacob family. Through a collection of documents — correspondence, photographs, interviews — the visitor discovers the profound relationship uniting Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war. An intimate dimension rarely highlighted. The archives presented allow us to read and hear the words and voices of the Jacob sisters as they recount their childhood in Nice, Denise's engagement in the Resistance, the arrest of Simone, Milou and their mother Yvonne in the spring of 1944, the deportation, the separations, the losses, and then the postwar period, up to Madeleine's death in 1952. Particular attention is paid to their young brother Jean, a photographer in the making, with the exhibition of several of his images, long kept within the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 on convoi 73. A family story both tender and tragic, one that joins the greater History and bears witness to the fate of the Jews of France.

Source: Paris Open Data ↗