Simone Veil and Gisèle Halimi: being a mentsch

As part of the exhibition Simone Veil. My sisters and I

"That’s the sister I would have chosen for myself," says Gisèle Halimi, lawyer and feminist activist, when her friend Simone Veil disappears in 2017. The two women were born in 1927, the first in Tunisia to a practicing and poor Jewish family, the second in Nice to Jewish, secular, republican and patriotic parents. Passionate about justice, they become lawyers, their friendship is formed and crystallizes around common struggles for women’s rights and the legalization of abortion in France.

In the presence of Annick Cojean, reporter at Le Monde, author of Simone Veil ou la force d'une femme (Stcobis 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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