This book collects all the speeches given by Simone Veil as president of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah from 2002 to 2007. As a survivor of Auschwitz, she speaks from the bottom of her heart and her own memory, matured and enhanced by her national and international political experience.

When he wrote letters to his wife, Jacques Salon (1914- 1989) did not know that she would not return from deportation. Nicole was a social worker at the OSE when he met her in 1940. For over two years, they were in the Resistance together, saving more than 200 Jewish children. October 24, 1943 - just three months after their marriage - Nicole was arrested, then deported to Auschwitz.