How to approach Simone Veil by another path than that, now familiar, of the stateswoman? How can we restore the innocence of a childhood in Nice that was brutally interrupted by the occupation and deportation?
The exhibition Simone Veil. My sisters and I, designed by director and photographer David Teboul, aims to bring out the intimate story of the Jacob family. Through a set of documents—correspondence, photographs, interviews—the visitor discovers the deep relationship that unites Madeleine (Milou), Denise and Simone before, during and after the war.
An intimate dimension rarely highlighted. The archives presented give to read and hear the words and voices of the Jacob sisters who 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, deportation, separations, the losses, then the post-war period, until Madeleine’s death in 1952.
Particular attention is paid to their younger brother Jean, a photographer in the making, with the exhibition of several of his images, long remained in the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 by convoy 73. A tender and tragic family story at the same time, which joins the great History and bears witness to the destiny of the Jews of France.
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