Friday, September 9, 1977 75
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS.
Simone Veil Has a Special Tie With Israel;
Admiration for Her Statesmanship Abounds
MR. & MRS. MAX DREW
AND FAMILY
Wishes All Our Friends & Relatives
A Healthy, Happy, Prosperous New Year
By BEN G. FRANK
(Copyright 1977. JTA, Inc.)
Best Wishes For A Happy,
Peaceful New Year
To All Our Friends and Relatives
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'Happy & Healthy New Year
PARIS—It was a solemn
day for Simone Veil (pro-
nounced Vay) several years
ago when she stood at Yad
Vashem memorial in Je-
rusalem and wrote a few
words in memory of those
in her very otvn family who
were killed in Auschwitz.
Emotionally moved, this
-sensitive, bright woman,
herself a survivor of
Auschwitz, must also have
felt the historical signifi-
cance of this particular
visit. She was said to be at
that • time the first Eu-
ropean Minister of Health
to visit the Jewish state and
one of the first French cabi-
net ministers in an official
visit to the state of Israel
since 1948.
Of course, by now, she
has a number of well-
known accomplishments:
she is known the world over
as the second woman to oc-
cupy a full-rank cabinet
post in the French govern-
ment and as the woman
who won the right to abor-
tion for all French women.
In point of fact, it was
during that fierce debate in
the French Parliament that
she provided a lesson in
stateswomanship. However,
her patience obviously was
drawn when a member of
Parliament accused her of
sending babies to the crema-
tory.
Ms. Veil fired back:
"You have no right to say
that—to me of all people."
One feels today that much
of her sense of solidarity
with the Jewish community
stems from those terrible
months in the death camps.
When the Nazis called for
the deportation of Jews
from France in World War
II, she and her family split
up and went into hiding.
They adopted pseudonyms.
Taken in by friends, Simone
Veil continued her studies.
In 1944, the day after she re-
ceived her high school diplo-
ma, she was stopped in the
street by a German police-
man. Her identity papers
were immediately recog-
nized as forgeries, and with-
in days the gestapo sent her
to an extermination camp
in Germany.
She ended up in Auschw-
itz, along with her mother
and one of her sisters. Her
head was shaved. The num-
ber 78,651 was tattooed on
her arm. She was assigned
tc) construction work.
extends best wishes to all
for a happy, joyous
New Year
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SIMONE VEIL
Nearly
one-half
of
France's 300,000 Jews were
murdered by the Nazis. The
community was "lifeless."
Ms. Veil and her sister
were the only members of
her family to survive. But
she and others survived and
like many other Jews in
France, she re-entered the
mainstream of French life
and passed qualifying
exams for civil service in
the judiciary. She became
an advisor to the minister
of justice in the mid-1960s
and contributed to impor-
tant judicial reforms.
Today, she is very popu-
lar in France and even oc-
casionally mentioned as a
future prime minister. If it
ever happens, she would
not, of course, be the first
Jew to be the prime min-
ister of France : Leon
Blum, Pierre Mendes-
France, Rene Mayer, all
were heads of French cabi-
nets in a nation which
today has 700,000 Jews,
which is the fourth largest
Jewish community in the
world, and in which many
Jews occupy high positions
in government, politics, the
arts, literature, commu-
nications, entertainment
and science, and includes a
number of Nobel Prize win-
ners. Also in the current
French government is Lion-
el Stoleru who is Jewish
and who is secretary of
state to the minister of
labor.
In recent years, also,
French political leaders
and candidates themselves
have met more often with
French Jewish leaders and
individuals to seek the Jew-
ish vote, so to speak, in a
country which because of
the 'influx of Jews from
North Africa in the 1960s,
has a revived, exciting and
alive Jewish community
and which is strengthening
its ties with Israel and
world Jewry.
Ms. Veil has expressed
positive sentiments about
her Judaism. There is no
doubt that in the past she
has been affected by the
ups and downs of the politi-
cal relations between Israel
and France. But in Israel,
which she visited several
times before her official
visit in 1975, and in France
afterwards, she stressed
the importance of the
strong scientific and medi-
cal links between the two
nations.
She cited exchanges of
doctors between the two
countries for special re-
search projects. At the
Weizmann Institute,Ms.
Veil and Institute officials
pointed to the valuable coop-
eration between the Weiz-
mann Institute of Israel and
the Pasteur Institute of
France.
Her awards bespeak of
her talents. She is a Cheva-
lier of the National Order
of Merit and has been deco-
rated for work in prison ad-
ministration and the rehabi-
litation of inmates. Recent-
ly she was in America
where she received an hon-
orary Doctor of Laws de-
gree from Princeton Univer-
sity. The citation read:
"Through her role .in the
enactment of legislation of
far reaching consequences,
she has become almost
overnight a leading political
figure of her country."
Ms. Veil is often asked
about her ties with Judaism
and Israel and just this
year, she was quoted in the
April, 1977 issue of
"L'Arche," the publication
of the Fonds Social Juif
Happy
New Year
From
MR. and MRS.
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Births Contest
in Jezreel Valley
JERUSALEM .— An
unusual competition
takes place twice a year
among the Jezreel Valley
settlements in Israel. A
record is kept of the
number of births in these
settlements. The one with
the highest number is
honored by having trees
planted in the name of
each newborn child.
Recently, Kibutz Mizra
won first place, with the
birth of 12 children in the
past six months. Second
place went to Kibutz
Gazit where 10 children
were born. In last place
was Kibutz Balfouria
with only three children.
Altogether, 60 children
were born in the past half
year in the participating
settlements.
The first 10 days of Tishri
are known as the Peniten-
tial Season, the Solemn
Days; they stir within the
soul of every person the
feeling of inadequacy, of
falling in the spiritual
scale, of slipping away
from the path of right-
eousness.
Unifie, the French equiva-
lent of the American Coun-
cil of Federations and Wel-
fare Funds, as to those
bonds. Here is what she
said:
"It is a sense of basic be-
longing to a community
which has been formative
for us and which one feels
one has inherited, in-
tellectually and emotion-,
ally. It is an overall tie
with Judaism. Religion is
not just a belief; it is really
a philosophy, a code of
ethics. I am aware that I
belong to this intellectual
community of which Israel
is both the cradle and the
ark that enables the philoso-
phy I mentioned to be per-
petrated and renewed.
"More important still, I
experienced this tie with Is-
rael in Auschwitz. I lived
with young Polish, Czech,
Slovak and Yugoslav
women who knew that for
them Israel was the only
refuge. The solidarity
among us was too great not -
to have left an impression.
Nevertheless, I personally
never endured those trials
with the idea of going to Pa-
lestine. But I lived that
great hope so intensively
with those young women
that it became something
very important for me emo-
tionally."
LARRY M.
STERN
and FAMILY
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Thanking You
For the past year
and hoping this year
will be better
Wishing You
A Happy
New Year