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02/10/2026 - 10/15/2026
Mémorial de la Shoah
17, rue Geoffroy l'Asnier
75004 Paris
The exhibition Simone Veil. My Sisters and Me, designed by director and photographer David Teboul, aims to bring to light the intimate history of the Jacob family. Through a collection of documents—correspondences, photographs, interviews—the visitor discovers the profound bond that unites Madeleine (Milou), Denise, and Simone before, during, and after the war.
An intimate dimension that is rarely highlighted. The presented archives allow the words and voices of the Jacob sisters to be read and heard as they recount their childhood in Nice, Denise’s involvement in the Resistance, the arrest of Simone, Milou, and their mother Yvonne in the spring of 1944, the deportation, separations, losses, and the post-war period up to Madeleine’s death in 1952.
Special attention is given to their younger brother Jean, an emerging photographer, with the exhibition of several of his images, which had long remained within the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 as part of convoy 73. A family story that is both tender and tragic, connecting with the grand narrative of history and bearing witness to the fate of the Jews of France.
Mémorial de la Shoah
17, rue Geoffroy l'Asnier
75004 Paris
The exhibition Simone Veil. My Sisters and Me, designed by director and photographer David Teboul, aims to bring to light the intimate history of the Jacob family. Through a collection of documents—correspondences, photographs, interviews—the visitor discovers the profound bond that unites Madeleine (Milou), Denise, and Simone before, during, and after the war.
An intimate dimension that is rarely highlighted. The presented archives allow the words and voices of the Jacob sisters to be read and heard as they recount their childhood in Nice, Denise’s involvement in the Resistance, the arrest of Simone, Milou, and their mother Yvonne in the spring of 1944, the deportation, separations, losses, and the post-war period up to Madeleine’s death in 1952.
Special attention is given to their younger brother Jean, an emerging photographer, with the exhibition of several of his images, which had long remained within the family circle. Jean Jacob was deported with his father in 1944 as part of convoy 73. A family story that is both tender and tragic, connecting with the grand narrative of history and bearing witness to the fate of the Jews of France.