Unforgettable for her life and political journey, Simone Veil, née Jacob, was born in Nice on July 13, 1927.
She spent her childhood and adolescence there before being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
In her memory and to honor her, Nice has named the boulevard that runs along the Moulins district and leads toward Saint-Isidore after her, as well as the Baumettes school in the neighborhood of her childhood. A commemorative plaque proudly stands at the Calmette high school where she studied and graduated.
This Wednesday, under a gray sky and with a cold wind, a weather that is easily associated with sadness, a final tribute is paid to Simone Veil: the unveiling of a commemorative plaque at the place where she came into the world, at 50 avenue Georges Clémenceau.
Her son Pierre-François, representing her other living son Jean, and the Mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, carried out this task, not without emotion, in front of a small crowd, in the presence of elected officials and religious representatives.
A modest ceremony, “as Simone Veil would have liked,” Pierre-François Veil recalled in his few words of thanks.
Christian Estrosi, his voice broken with emotion, called on the audience “not to forget her and to rebuild our strengths every day, drawing from the memory of Simone as a child and of all of ours yesterday, today, tomorrow.”
