Visite guidée de l'exposition Simone Veil. Mes sœurs et moi

Discover the new exhibition at the Mémorial de la Shoah Simone Veil. My Sisters and I Workshops and tours for families

How can we approach Simone Veil through a path other than that of the now familiar stateswoman? How can we restore the innocence of a Nice childhood brutally interrupted by the Occupation and deportation? The exhibition Simone Veil.

My Sisters and I, designed by the filmmaker and photographer David Teboul, focuses on bringing to light the intimate history of the Jacob family.

Through a collection of documents — correspondence, photographs, interviews — visitors discover the deep bond that united Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war. An intimate dimension rarely highlighted.

The archives presented allow us to read and hear the words and voices of the Jacob sisters as they tell us about their childhood in Nice, Denise's involvement in the Resistance, the arrest of Simone, Milou and their mother Yvonne in the spring of 1944, the deportation, the separations, the losses, and then the post-war period, until Madeleine's death in 1952.

Particular attention is paid to their younger brother Jean, a budding photographer, with the exhibition of several of his images, which had long remained within the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 on convoy 73.

A family history that is both tender and tragic, intersecting with major history and bearing witness to the destiny of the Jews of France. Book