Mrs. Simone Veil, Minister of Public Health in the French Cabinet, was the guest speaker at the annual assembly of the Alliance Israelite Universelle in Paris, it was reported here today by the American Friends of the Alliance. Speaking about the role of women in modern life she told the gathering: “The destiny of the women of Israel who with a tool or a weapon in hand contributed to the building of their nation foreshadows the wish of the women of all countries. Everywhere in the world women ask henceforth the respect of their individuality and the recognition of their identity,”
Mrs, Veil, who also spoke at length about the conditions and horrors of the Nazi concentration camps of which she had been an inmate, said that the voices of those who died in them have become silent only for those who do not want to hear them. The Minister was introduced by Judge Raymond Lindon, former highest public prosecutor of France. Jules Braunschvig, acting president, chaired the meeting in the absence of Prof, Rene Cassin, Nobel Prize winner, president of the Alliance. He read Prof. Cassin’s message stressing the solidarity of all liberation movements and all emancipation efforts.
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