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Simone Veil

Also known as Simone Jacob, Simone Annie Liline Jacob

French politician (1927–2017)

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Simone Veil was a person associated with the United States. She is recognized in the Academie Francaise collection. Her name is transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as "[simɔn vɛj]".

She is the author of works including *Pour mémoire*, *Pour résister*, *Handicap et citoyenneté au seuil de l'an 2000*, *Coeur de femmes*, and *Simone Veil, mon héroïne*. Records indicate she has 18 works listed in the Open Library and five works in the Crossref database. Additionally, she is referenced by 606 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Simone
Gender: female
Citizenship: Belgium
Place of birth: Nice
Place of death: Paris
Spouse: Antoine Veil
Sibling: Denise Vernay
Occupation: judge
Educated at: Paris Law Faculty
Political party: Union for French Democracy
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Academic degree: licentiate
Field of work: politics
Image: Simone Veil, gymnase Japy 2008 02 27 n3 ret.jpg
Work location: Strasbourg
Significant event: funeral

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place of detention: Auschwitz
Commons category: Simone Veil
date of birth: 1927-07-13
member of: Académie Française
name in native language: Simone Veil
date of death: 2017-06-30
IPA transcription: [simɔn vɛj]
place of burial: Panthéon
archives at: Archives nationales
different from: Simone Weil
wears: earring
hair style / hair length: chignon
birth name: Simone Annie Liline Jacob
subject has role: Holocaust survivor

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Encyclopedic overview

Simone Veil DBE ( French: [simɔn vɛj] ; née Simone Annie Jacob; 13 July 1927 – 30 June 2017) 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: Loi Veil).

In 1979, Veil became the first woman elected President of the European Parliament, symbolising both her stature and her commitment to European integration as a guarantee of peace. She later served on France’s Constitutional Council (1998–2007), the country’s highest legal authority, and as president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, where she contributed to Holocaust remembrance and education.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simone Veil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.