Guided tour of the Simone Veil exhibition. My sisters and I
When: 05.11.2026 19:00
Where: 48.854851, 2.356314
Organizer: Admin
How to approach Simone Veil by another path than the now familiar one of the stateswoman? How to restore the innocence of a Nice childhood brutally interrupted by the Occupation and deportation?
The exhibition Simone Veil. My Sisters and I, created by director and photographer David Teboul, seeks to bring out the intimate history of the Jacob family. Through a collection of documents — correspondence, photographs, interviews — the visitor discovers the deep relationship that binds Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war.
An intimate dimension rarely highlighted. The presented archives allow reading and hearing the words and voices of the Jacob sisters who tell us about their childhood in Nice, Denise's involvement in the Resistance, the arrest of Simone, Milou and their mother Yvonne in spring 1944, the deportation, the separations, the losses, then the post‑war period, up to Madeleine's death in 1952.
Special attention is given to their younger brother Jean, an aspiring photographer, with the exhibition of several of his images, long kept within the family circle. Jean Jacob is deported with his father in 1944 by convoy 73. A family story both tender and tragic, which connects to the larger History and bears witness to the fate of the Jews of France.
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Tags: memorial, guided tour, history, exhibition
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/visite-guidee-de-l-exposition-simone-veil-mes-soeurs-et-moi-116650
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