Simone Jacob lives in Nice with her parents - her father is a famous Parisian architect who moved in the South of which realizes its potential for tourism and urban - the two sisters and his brother Jean. It 's the youngest daughter of a secular Jewish family, integrated in society and very much tied to the culture of his country. When war broke out in France in 1939, Simon is still very young, but already sensed that this event, beginning just perceptible in everyday life, can turn into tragedy. Although nice in that moment is in the free zone, although later, under the Italian occupation, will not know the fury that will characterize the anti-Jewish German occupation, the situation danger becomes more pressing as ever. In fact, since the Statute of 3 October 1940, which forbids Jews to exercise certain professions, the requirement to be registered until 1941, the family's life becomes increasingly more precarious and insecure. Thus begins a time when children and parents live apart, in different homes, with friends and are forced to obtain false documents. This is not enough to save them from deportation. Simone, the mother and sister are Milou interned at Auschwitz.
"... we adapt the horrible atmosphere that reigned in the camp, the stinking smell of burnt bodies, the smoke still darkened the sky, the mud everywhere, the moisture penetrating the swamp. Today when you return to that place, nonostrante furnishing the barracks, the watchtowers, barbed wire, almost everything that was Auschwitz has disappeared. Do you see what happened in those places and you can not imagine. The fact is that nothing can give a measure of the extermination of millions of human beings, brought here from every corner of Europe "(pp. 79-80).
Simone survive the death camp. Back in France he married very young - since then take the surname of her husband Antoine Veil - and will undertake a career as a magistrate before and that policy later. will be the first president of the European Parliament. Now is also the French Academy.
French edition This book is for children and young people, very cheap and well-annotated, contains the first four chapters of autobiography Une vie (Stock).
Simone Veil, Une jeunesse au temps de la Shoah, Stock (Le Livre de Poche) 2010.
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