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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Simone Veil

File: This photo taken on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 shows a mailbox with swastikas covering the face of the late Holocaust survivor and renowned French politician, Simone Veil, in Paris, France (Mairie du XIIIth via AP)
August 11, 2021, 7:11 pm
Swastikas daubed on French memorial to Holocaust survivor Simone Veil
Junior interior minister expresses horror over act tarnishing memory of late politician: ‘To deface her memorial is to deface France’
By AFP
Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois mayor Frederic Petitta, left, listens to a speech by French writer Emilie Freche, on February 13, 2019 in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois, at a ceremony honoring Ilan Halimi, two days after two trees planted in memory of the 23-year-old Jewish man abducted and killed over a decade ago by an anti-Semitic gang were found vandalized. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
February 13, 2019, 10:13 pm
France’s ‘vile passions’ resurface in anti-Jewish graffiti
As poll finds nearly half of ‘yellow vest’ protesters believe in worldwide ‘Zionist plot’ and amid spate of anti-Jewish acts, one local says ‘French society is in trouble’
By Anne CHAON
Ilan Halimi, kidnapped and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang in Paris in 2006, (Courtesy of Stephanie Yin/JTA)
February 11, 2019, 10:53 pm
Tree commemorating murdered French Jew is chopped down amid anti-Semitic spate
Desecration of memorial to Ilan Halimi the latest in series of anti-Jewish attacks that have raised fears in Paris; anti-Semitic attacks up 74% in 2018
By Clare BYRNE
Jewish tombstones are seen desecrated with swastikas in the Herrlisheim Jewish cemetery, north of Strasbourg, eastern France, December 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)
December 12, 2018, 9:19 pm
French Jewish cemetery near Strasbourg defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti
Tombstones vandalized with code for Adolf Hitler; fourth incident in 2 months of graffiti featuring far-right rhetoric at Jewish sites in eastern Alsace
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this file photo taken on January 15, 2015 French survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Nazi concentration camp, film director and novelist Marceline Loridan-Ivens, poses in Paris (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)
September 19, 2018, 11:44 pm
Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies at 90
Loridan-Ivens was taken to the Nazi camp when she was just 15, where she met Veil who was to become a lifelong friend
By AFP
French Republican Guards arrive to carry the coffins of former French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil and her husband Antoine Veil to the Pantheon in Paris on July 1, 2018 during the burial ceremony. (AFP Photo/Pool/Ludovic Marin)
July 1, 2018, 4:56 pm
Pantheon burial honors French rights icon, Holocaust survivor Simone Veil
Rare honor comes a year after the death of Veil, who is remembered for her successful 1974 abortion rights campaign and her long advocacy for European integration
By Jérôme RIVET
French President Emmanuel Macron (C, top) attends a tribute ceremony for French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, France, on July 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD)
July 1, 2018, 6:10 am
French icon Simone Veil to be buried in Pantheon on Sunday in rare honor
Hundreds expected to pay respects as remains of Jewish Holocaust survivor, activist and politician who died last year moved to storied Paris monument
By AFP
This file photo taken on June 10, 1979 shows Simone Veil casting her ballot in Paris during the European elections. (Pierre Guillaud/AFP)
June 29, 2018, 7:59 am
France to honor rights icon, Holocaust survivor Simone Veil with Pantheon burial
Veil convinced the French parliament to legalize abortion despite fierce opposition, and was the first elected president of the European Parliament in 1979
By Joseph Schmid
(JTA collage)
December 30, 2017, 12:18 am
10 inspiring Jews who died in 2017
Remembering those members of the tribe who accomplished great things in the arts, comedy, politics and leadership
By Gabe Friedman
Clockwise, from top left: Carrie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, Leonard Cohen and Zsa Zsa Gabor. (Getty Images/via JTA)
September 18, 2017, 1:20 pm
11 inspiring Jews who died in 5777
Remembering those who accomplished great things in the arts, sciences and politics
By Gabe Friedman
French President Emmanuel Macron (C, top) attends a tribute ceremony for French politician and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil in the courtyard of the Invalides in Paris, France, on July 5, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ALAIN JOCARD)
July 5, 2017, 2:27 pm
Holocaust survivors, French president bid Simone Veil farewell
Revered Jewish politician to be inducted into Paris’s Pantheon mausoleum alongside her husband and dozens of French greats
By ToI Staff and Agencies
This file photo taken on January 27, 2005 at Auschwitz-Birkenau shows French President Jacques Chirac (L) and former Auschwitz prisoner and former French Health Minister Simone Veil, at the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp, before ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than one million people died. Veil, an Auschwitz survivor who played a leading role in legalizing contraception and abortion in France, died on June 30, 2017 aged 89 (AFP PHOTO / PATRICK KOVARIK)
June 30, 2017, 4:55 pm
Simone Veil, French feminist and politician who survived Auschwitz, dies at 89
Towering political figure was seen as something of a secular saint for her unwavering stance on moral issues
By Agencies
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