http://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/world/europe/simone-veil-pantheon.html
"Simone Veil to Be Laid to Rest in Panthéon, Among France’s Revered"
"A Light That No One Could Extinguish" http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/07/05/535624405/france-honors-the-memory-of-simone-veil-a-light-that-no-one-could-extinguish
"A survivor from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where she lost part of her family during the Holocaust;she served as the first president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, from 2000 to 2007 and subsequently as honorary president. She was elected to the Académie française in November 2008."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Veil
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40507990
http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/veil-simone |