This piece was originally written as a chapter for RBG’s Brave and Brilliant Women: 33 Jewish Women to Inspire Everyone (Random House) but did not appear in the published volume. Simone Veil was born in Nice, France, on July 13, 1927. She was a teenager when Hitler’s forces stormed through Europe. She and her family were arrested because they were Jewish in 1944, just two days after she completed high school. Her father and brother were sent by convoy to Lithuania, where they disappeared without a trace. Veil, her mother and one of her sisters were deported to two Nazi...
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