Visite guidée de l'exposition Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi

Mémorial de la Shoah

Discover the new exhibition at the Mémorial de la Shoah Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi Guided tour for Adults 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 Nice childhood brutally interrupted by the Occupation and deportation? The exhibition Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi, conceived by the director and photographer David Teboul, seeks to bring out the intimate history of the Jacob family. Through a collection of documents — correspondence, photographs, interviews — visitors discover the deep relationship uniting Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war. An intimate dimension rarely highlighted. The archives on display let us read and hear the words and voices of the Jacob sisters as they tell us about their childhood in Nice, Denise's involvement 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 given to their young brother Jean, a photographer in the making, with the display 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 history that is both tender and tragic, which joins the greater History and bears witness to the fate of the Jews of France. Book

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