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12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE August 3, 1979
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Parliament president is
a survivor of Auschwitz
by Ben Frank
PARIS (JTA)—History was
made on July 17 when the first
elected European Parliament -
meeting at Strasbourg. France,
just across the river from
Germany—elected a Jewish
survivor of Auschwitz as its
president.
Simone Veil, age 52, born in
Nice, a former Health Minister of
France and for the last five years
considered the most popular
official in that nation, will preside
over the 410-member legislative
body that was chosen by a
combined electorate of 180 million
people. She will also represent the
Parliament in negotiations with
other European Economic
Community (EEC) institutions.
What made her give up a secure
appointed position as Minister of
Health for the rough and tumble of
electoral politics of France and of a
European Parliament which in
cludes elected representatives from
the EEC countries of Denmark,
Ireland, The Netherlands, United
Kingdom, Belgium, France, Lux
emburg, Italy and West Germany?
There are those close to her who
say that part of the motivation for
her wanting to be a force in the
European Parliament is that it
would be a forum where she could
speak out to ensure that a
Holocaust which took the life of
six million Jews, including her
father, mother and brother, should
never occur again. She now
considers the EEC a safeguard
against anything “like that”
Parliament President Veil
happening again. In the past, say
French Jewish leaders, when she
has had to speak out, she did so
forcefully.
Example. This attractive
woman, who dresses elegantly in
Chanel suits and long sleeved
dresses that always hide the
concentration camp number 78651
tatooed on her forearm, was
instrumental in having French
television show the NCB-TV
“Holocaust” series after the head
of all three TV stations made
public statements refusing to show
it.
Example: Last year, the news
weekly L’Express published an
interview held in Spain with the
Vichy government’s Commission
er of Jewish Affairs Louis
Darquier who insisted that the
Holocaust never occured. Ms. Veil
spoke out. She chided L’Express
for not at least providing along
with the interview accompanying
documents and photographs
showing what really happened,
and emphasized the dangers of
banalizing racism. Her response
triggered page-one editorials in the
Paris dailies, comments from
President Valery Giscard
d’Estaing and a long rebuttal in
L’Express.
Example: In a Tierce debate in
the French Parliament, a number
of years ago, she led the French
government's battle to win the
right of abortion for all women
When a member of Parliament
accused her of sending babies to
the crematory, she fired back:
“You have no right to say that to
me of all people."
There are of course other
ideological and political reasons
why Ms. Veil may have been
chosen to run in the first place for
the European Parliament which,
while it may have limited powers,
now has the moral impact and
moral authority of having its
members elected by universal
sufferage rather than appointed by
the Parliaments of member states.
This past spring, Giscard
plucked Ms. Veil from the
Minister of Health post to head his
ticket aligned against the
Socialists, Communists, Gaulists
and others in France’s election of
representatives to the European
Parliament. The President’s and
Ms. Veil’s prestige were on the line.
Until 1979, she possessed a
completely non-partisan image
since Giscard had appointed her
and she never had to endure a
political campaign.
Giscard's “Union pour la
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