Simone Veil and Gisèle Halimi: being a mentsch
Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 7 PM
As part of the exhibition Simone Veil. My sisters and I
"She is the sister I would have chosen myself," confides Gisèle Halimi, lawyer and feminist activist, when her friend Simone Veil disappeared in 2017. The two women were born in 1927, the first in Tunisia into a practicing and poor Jewish family, the second in Nice of Jewish, secular, republican and patriotic parents. Passionate about justice, they become lawyers, their friendship develops and crystallizes around common struggles for women’s rights and the legalization of abortion in France.
In the presence of Annick Cojean, famous reporter for Le Monde, author of Simone Veil ou la force d'une femme (Steinkis éditions) and co-author with Gisèle Halimi of A Fierce Freedom (Grasset), and David Teboul, artist, author and curator of the exhibition.
In conversation with Léa Veinstein, author and philosopher.
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