Speeches 2002-2007

Simone Veil

• Publisher: Éditions Le Manuscrit
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9782304004229
• eBook ISBN: 9782304004236
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

Simone Veil has spoken on very different stages and subjects, and before extremely diverse audiences. The speeches collected here represent only a fraction of her public dialogues: those given over the last six years in her capacity as president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah. Having written those last words, I must immediately correct myself: when our president discusses the Shoah, she is firstly and always Madame Veil, the Auschwitz survivor, matured and enriched by her French and international political experience, who speaks from the heart about her own memory and her own thoughts. Alone, the typed pages of these speeches doubtless lack her gaze, her gravitas, and the singular tone of her stories, which always pierce her listeners.

Table of contents

• Introduction to theFondation de la Mémoire de la Shoah’s‘Testimonies of the Shoah’Collection
• Biography of Madame Simone Veil
• Preface
• 2002
• Inaugurationof the Place des Justes Nancy, France,September 20th 2002
• Ministerial Seminar entitled Teaching the Shoah in the 21st Century? held by theNational Ministries of Education of the Council of Europe’s European Cultural Convention Member States Strasbourg, France,October 18th 2002
• Inauguration of the Exposition Dedicated to the Hidden Children,At the Caen Peace MemorialCaen, France,October 25th 2002
• Signing of the initiative to microfilm the archives of the Vichy government’sCommissariat-General for Jewish Affairs Paris, France,November 19th 2002
• Closing ceremonyof the round tablein tribute to Dr. Joseph Weillof the OSE Paris, France,November 25th 2002
• 2003
• Conference entitledReflections on Memoryheld by theFrench Institute of BudapestBudapest, Hungary,June 11th 2003
• Inauguration of theParoles d’étoilesexpositionChambon-sur-Lignon, France,June 16th 2003
• Inauguration of the University of Amsterdam’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam, The Netherlands,September 8th 2003
• Reception held by the President of the State of Israel,Mr. Moshe Katzav,at the jubilee ceremonies of the Yad Vashem InstituteJerusalem, Israel,September 17th 2003
• 2004
• Address for the exhibition in honour the 60th anniversary of the death of Max Jacob (1876-1944) Drancy Town Hall, Drancy, France,February 27th 2004
• Medal ceremony of theRighteous Among the NationsOrléans, France,March 31st 2004
• Conference on the Holocaust, held at theUniversity of WarsawWarsaw, Poland,April 6th 2004
• Opening session of theAcademy of Science’s international conference on the Holocaust in HungaryBudapest, Hungary,April 16th 2004
• Opening session of the colloquium entitledThe Destruction of Hungaria’s JewsBibliothèque nationale de France,Paris, France,April 27th 2004
• The OSCEConference on Anti-SemitismBerlin, Germany,April 28-29th 2004
• Commemoration of the great raid of le Vélodrome d’Hiver Paris, France,July 18th 2004
• Colloquium entitledTogether, let us buildJudeo-Muslim friendship in FranceCEDER La Villette, Paris, France,November 2004
• 2005
• Inauguration of the Wall of Names at the Mémorial de la ShoahParis, France,January 23th 2005
• International Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau campPoland,January 27th 2005
• Ceremony to mark the work of restitution carried out by the schoolchildren of Alpes-Maritimes after their journey to Auschwitz Nice, France,January 31st 2005
• The CRIF DinnerMarseilles, France,March 10th 2005
• Conference on anti-Semitismand other forms of intolerance; meeting of the OSCE Cordoba, Spain,June 9th 2005
• Inauguration of the expositionin tribute to Luiz de Souza Dantas, held at la Maison de l’Amérique latineParis, France,June 16th 2005
• Commemoration dedicated to the victimsof the ShoahRiga, Latvia,July 4th 2005
• National day of remembrance for victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes of the French nation and of homage to the ‘Just Among the Nations’ of France Vél’ d’Hiv’, Paris, France,July 17th 2005
• Dedication of the Wall of NamesMarseille, France,September 29th 2005
• Conference on anti-Semitism and remembrance of the ShoahMadrid, Spain,October 19th 2005
• 2006
• National day of remembrance of the heroes and martyrs of the Holocaust in GreeceAthens, Greece,January 30th 2006
• Opening session of theInternational Conference on the ShoahThe Holocaust: Remembrance and LessonsRiga, Latvia,July 4-5th 2006
• National day of remembrance of victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes of the French Stateand homage to the ‘Righteous of France’Vélodrome d’Hiver, Paris, France,July 16th 2006
• 2007
• Opening ceremony, Holocaust Rembrance DayThe United Nations, New York, USA,January 29th 2007
• The Fondationpour la Mémoire de la Shoah