Simone Veil: two days of tribute to the Memorial before the Pantheon

Friday 29 and Saturday 30 June 2018, the Shoah Memorial allows the public to come and meditate in front of the coffins of Simone Veil and her husband, Antoine Veil, in his crypt located under the forecourt.

“Knowing that Simone Veil will leave the Shoah Memorial and go to the Pantheon is also the idea that it is the 76,000 Jews deported from France who will return to the Pantheon. It is a wonderful symbol," said Jacques Fredj, director of the Shoah Memorial.

During these two days of homage, all those who wish can come to meditate in the crypt of the Shoah Memorial, in front of the two coffins of Simone and Antoine Veil.

Simone Veil, a survivor of the Holocaust, was deported to Auschwitz at 16 by convoy No. 71 on April 13, 1944. In the crypt of the Memorial, during these two days of meditation, a soundtrack plays the names of the 1,500 Jews deported by this same convoy.

Simone Veil has always been accessible, she has been popular all her life and we want her to continue to be accessible until the day before her "pantheonization", Jacques Fredj.