Discover the new exhibition at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi. Guided tour for adults
How can Simone Veil be approached through a path other than the now familiar one of the stateswoman? How can the innocence of a childhood in Nice, brutally cut short by the Occupation and deportation, be brought back to life? The exhibition Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi, conceived by filmmaker and photographer David Teboul, sets out to bring the intimate story of the Jacob family to light. Through a collection of documents — correspondence, photographs, interviews — visitors discover the deep bond that united Madeleine (Milou), Denise, and Simone before, during, and after the war. An intimate dimension rarely brought to the fore. The archives on display allow us to read and hear 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, and then the postwar years, up to Madeleine’s death in 1952. Particular attention is given to their younger brother Jean, an aspiring photographer, with several of his images on display, long kept within the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 on Convoy 73. A family story that is both tender and tragic, one that joins the wider sweep of History and bears witness to the fate of the Jews of France. Book
Source: paris.fr — photo: YKellerman