Simone Veil
✶July 13, 1927
†June 30, 2017
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✶July 13, 1927
†June 30, 2017
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Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women's rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.
French politician (1927–2017)
Biography from the article Simone Veil on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.