Simone Weil

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Simone Weil died today. She is a huge figure in France, and was the first president of the European Parliament, but I can find little about her death in the UK press.
She deserves to be remembered: a formidable, determined woman, who fought hard for human rights, and for European construction after surviving the Holocaust.

www.vox.com/identities/2017/6/30/15903006/holocaust-survivor-feminist-icon-simone-veil-died-france

She was amazing. Have to confess I didn't know she was still alive.

Simone Veil: French politician and Holocaust survivor dies
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40455507

Oh, I hadn't seen this! RIP astonishing SW.

I'm glad the BBC has reported it.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/30/simone-veil-dies-89-legacy-french-auschwitz-survivor-womens/

Astonishing life she led, and an incredible legacy.

Although she lived to a good age I've been very sad about this today. She was an inspiration.

She was an amazing woman, absolutely remarkable. I am sad to hear that she has died. I have always admired her enormously.

She was inspirational.
I can't help thinking that there won't be many like her.

Umm - really not wanting to be arsey, but the politician and Holocaust survivor who died today was Simone 'Veil', not Simone 'Weil' (a French anarchist who died in the 1940s).

Radio 4 interviewed Edith Cresson (former prime minister of France) today about Veil - but I can't find the link. They were in different political parties, but Cresson made obvious her respect for Veil.

Who wouldn't respect her? She was a remarkable woman and, as a pp said, she left an amazing legacy.

We need more like her!

My mistake.
Sorry.
Different spelling, same pronunciation...
I wish MN would let us correct posts.