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“simone veil”

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  • For Future Generations

    by Simone Veil, Dan Arbib ...
    Translated by Ruth Diver ...
    SIMONE VEIL had an extraordinary life and a lasting legacy. She survived Auschwitz as a teenager and was the first female President of the European Parliament. Remembered in France today for championing the Loi Veil, which decriminalised abortion, and advancing women’s rights as Health Minister, she is buried in state in the Panthéon.In For Future Generations, Veil speaks to French university ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

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  • A Life

    by Simone Veil ...
    Translated by Tamsin Black ...
    Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was deported with her family to concentration camps. Though she survived, her mother, father, and brother ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Veiled Sun

    From Auschwitz to New Beginnings

    by Paul Schaffer ...
    The Veiled Sun: From Auschwitz to New Beginnings by Paul Schaffer and Translated from the French by Vivian Felsen with a Foreword by Serge Klarsfeld and an Introduction by Simone Veil.The Veiled Sun is a Holocaust memoir written in a highly literate style. Paul Schaffer spent his teenage years on the run from the Nazis in Austria, Belgium and France, and then in Auschwitz from 1942 to 1945. He ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Reappraisals

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